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“Δυο εχθροί, ένας απ'έξω, ένας από μέσα. Πουθενά γλυτωμός άλλος από τη μαγκουφιά της ερημιάς στα γερατειά. Κήρυξαν σε διωγμό τον έρωτα, την πράξη την ερωτική, γιατί νομίζετε; Για να κεντρίσουν τη ζήτηση, να σε βασανίσουν σοφά με τη στέρηση, να σε κατασπαράξουν με τον πόθο. Ψυχολογικός καταναγκασμός! Υψηλή τέχνη!... Προσέξατε τα κορίτσια σας, το νου σας μην παραστρατήσουν! Διδάξετε τους καλά το εμπόριο, είναι πράξη ανώτερης ηθικής. Και πέστε τους πως είναι αίσχος να πουλάνε το κορμί τους. Την ψυχή τους, αυτήν, μπορούνε να την πουλάνε λεύτερα. Ο σκοπός είναι "ιερός"!”
― Η μενεξεδένια πολιτεία
― Η μενεξεδένια πολιτεία
“Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found upon examination The latter has the largest congregation.”
― History of the Plague in London
― History of the Plague in London
“Women made such swell friends. Awfully swell. In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship. I had been having Brett for a friend. I had not been thinking about her side of it. I had been getting something for nothing. That only delayed the presentation of the bill. The bill always came. That was one of the swell things you could count on.
I thought I had paid for everything. Not like the woman pays and pays and pays. No idea of retribution or punishment. Just exchange of values. You gave up something and got something else. Or you worked for something. You paid some way for everything that was any good. I paid my way into enough things that I liked, so that I had a good time. Either you paid by learning about them, or by experience, or by taking chances, or by money. Enjoying living was learning to get your money’s worth. The world was a good place to buy in. It seemed like a fine philosophy. In five years, I though, it will seem just as silly as all the other fine philosophies I’ve had.”
― The Sun Also Rises
I thought I had paid for everything. Not like the woman pays and pays and pays. No idea of retribution or punishment. Just exchange of values. You gave up something and got something else. Or you worked for something. You paid some way for everything that was any good. I paid my way into enough things that I liked, so that I had a good time. Either you paid by learning about them, or by experience, or by taking chances, or by money. Enjoying living was learning to get your money’s worth. The world was a good place to buy in. It seemed like a fine philosophy. In five years, I though, it will seem just as silly as all the other fine philosophies I’ve had.”
― The Sun Also Rises
“Είτανε μιά από τις εξαντλητικές εκείνες, τις υπεράνθρωπες νίκες, που αν δεν τις έτρωγε η αφάνεια της καθημερινής ζωής, αν είτανε δυνατό να γίνουν με κάθε τους λεπτομέρεια γνωστές, θα κινούσαν το θαυμασμό. Έτσι, συχνά, για τα μέτρια αποτελέσματα, χρειάζεται να χυθεί ο αιματερός ιδρώτας, όταν οι μεγάλες πράξεις γίνονται με μια χειρονομία απλή.”
― Η μενεξεδένια πολιτεία
― Η μενεξεδένια πολιτεία
“There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.”
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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