We are masters of the unsaid words,
but slaves of those we let slip out.
-Winston Churchill
Fordømt velsignet
yes
it is possible
to hate and love someone
at the same time
i do it to myself everyday
– Rupi Kaur
Greatness in hindsight
The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
— Henry Kissinger
De store træk
Loven om selvødelæggelse og loven om selvbeskyttelse er lige stærke i menneskeheden.
Fjodor M. Dostojevskij: Idioten
Закон саморазрушения и закон самосохранения одинаково сильны в человечестве!
Федор Достоевский . “Идиот”.
Not the time!
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
– Henry Kissinger
Ha! Tosser
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
– Oscar Wilde
Et sug i hjertet
“My heart is not captured easily. I am disinterested in small talk, disillusioned with love, and too focused on my dreams and aspirations to lend anybody my attention for long. But if we make that connection, if you find your way into my heart, God, I will fall for you like gravity has let go of the earth.”
– Beau Taplin: The Connection
Jeg drømmer blot
“Jeg ønsker mig frihed, og penge.
At sidde på terrassen, drikke vin og tale om litteratur, og om aftenen, kvinder…
De tager vel sydpå i september?”
– A. P. Tjekhov i brev til Suvorin, 1893
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«Свободы хочется и денег.
Сидеть бы на палубе, трескать вино и беседовать о литературе, а вечером дамы…
Не поедете ли Вы в сентябре на юг?»
А.П. Чехов — А. Суворину, 1893г.
Multifacetteret
“Monolingualism produces a totalitarian vision of the world. This object is called a book and that’s it. Whereas the bilingual child, faced with one object with two names, will have to grapple with abstract and philosophical ideas early on in life.”
– Andreï Makine
Momentum in spite
“In excited times, a politician needs no power of reasoning, no apprehension of impersonal facts, and no shred of wisdom. What he must have is the capacity of persuading the multitude that what they passionately desire is attainable, and that he, through his ruthless determination, is the man to attain it.”
― Bertrand Russell, Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), Ch. III: The Forms of Power, p. 49