Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. Status: I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. ♥
Sex: female Age: 18 Location: The Garden of Eden,
Serbia
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I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. - Marie Antoinette
❥ She can't love anyone until she understands that she can't love everyone.
Grace was in all her steps,
Heaven in her Eye,
In every gesture dignity and love.
Lots of people like rainbows. Children make wishes on them, artists paint them, dreamers chase them, but she is ahead of everybody. She lives on one. What's more, she's taken it apart and examined it, piece by piece, color by color, and she still believes in it. It isn't easy to believe in something after you know what it's really like. She dreams different dreams than you. She hears a distant drummer and follows a star most of us have never seen. Yet she knows that most dreams are illusions, like the rainbow she has examined so closely and still loves. She belongs to everyone, and yet to no one. Her love can be tender and inspired, but there will always be a vaguely elusive quality about it, like a half-remembered song. You can hum the melody, but the lyrics keep slipping away.
♥ She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.
Some of my favourite quotes:
• People are going to disappoint you, I get that... I kind of expect that, but I don't know, what if you wake up one day and realise that you're the disappointment?
• Admiration is the emotion farthest from comprehension.
• You have lost your sanity! - Sanity?! I don't remember having a thing like that in the first place!
• Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
• Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
• The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
• I wish they would only take me as I am.
• All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
• Virtue is its own punishment.
• It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
• He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
• Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
• Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.
• Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
• War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
• Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
• Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.
• I've decided that I must be the Messiah; people expect me to work miracles, and when I don't, I get crucified.
• Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
• Deserves death! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
• There must have been a moment in the beginning when we could have said 'no.' Somehow we missed it. Well, we'll know better next time...
• It's quite ironic that in life, the person that brings out the best in you and the one that makes you strong is actually your weakness...
• Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never knew.
• We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And some people still wonder why some are afraid When they are told they are loved...
• You must be the change you seek in the world.
• I haven't lost my mind. I know exactly where i left it.
• Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
• I live in fear of not being misunderstood.
• Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
• There is truth, but no one knows what it is.
• When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
• If you're going through hell, keep going.
• I don't suffer from insanity... I enjoy every minute of it...
• Live as one already dead.
• Poi s'accose nel foco che gli affina.
• For every difficult and complicated question there is an answer that is simple, easily understood, and wrong.
• A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
• Nonsense is nonsense, but the history of nonsense is a very important science.
• Good writers borrow from others. Great writers, they steal.
• Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to hide the bodies of the people I had to kill because they pissed me off.
• Never let your schooling interfere with your education.
• Some people never see the light till it shines thru bullet holes.
• I blame society for anything I've said that you disagree with.
• People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in.
• I try to keep an open mind, but not so open my brains fall out.
• Every time that I think I'm wrong, I realize that I was mistaken.
• If you can keep your head when all around are losing theirs, you're probably the executioner.
• In a dictatorship, people suffer without complaining. In a democracy, people complain without suffering.
• Nature neither rewards nor punishes actions. There are only consequences.
• The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
• Mob rule isn't any prettier merely beacuse the mob calls iself a government.
• Wilson's theory of relativity: If you go back far enough, we're all related.
• The only ones who fail are those who do not try.
• There is truth, but no one knows what it is.
• The meaning of life is that it ends.
• If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.
• God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we can't prove it.
• Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
• Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
• The opposite of love is not hate; it is indifference.
• Death confronts us not unlike the historical battle scene that hangs on the wall of the classroom. It is our task to obscure or quite obliterate the picture by our deeds while we are still in this world.
• We must embrace the heresy of today, for it is the logic of tomorrow.
• It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even quench thirst any more?
• Life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.
• We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
• It's not that life is so short, you're just dead a really long time.
• If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
• To hold a man down, you have to get down on the ground with him.
• When societies and cultures go to war, it is individuals who do the dying.
• Insanity is not a state of mind, it's a way of life.
• Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
• Time is like the tide. Blue.
• Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day... But give a man a gun and others will feed him for life.
• The grass may look greener on the other side, but it's just as hard to cut.
• I don't think God put me on this planet to judge others. I think he put me on this planet to gather specimens and take them back to my home planet.
• "Sorry" isn't good enough; you have to stop screwing up.
• Do not adjust your mind, there is a fault in reality.
• Talk is cheap until you hire a lawyer.
• Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
• Never tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon.
• Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
• You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.
• When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.
• We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
• Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
• Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
• Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
• I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.
• To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
• It is better to be hated for what you are, than to be loved for something you are not.
• When the big things get you down, let the little things make you smile.
• I've seen hands torn from another's grasp but what's even worse is when they just let go...
• What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
• You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
• Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
• Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you to recognise a mistake when you make it again.
• Try to learn from others mistakes, since you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
• Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; I'm not sure about the universe.
• Patience is not a virtue, it is a waste of time.
• You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
• The only flaw in me is that I consider myself as the most perfect in this world.
• Love is like a puzzle. When you're in love, all the pieces fit but when your heart gets broken, it takes a while to get everything back together.
• I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had.
• Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
• Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.
• You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.
• Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
• Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
• A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
• The idea is to die young as late as possible.
• To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
• Have you ever wondered which hurts the most: saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing, and wishing you had?
• In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away.
• Someday your prince charming will come. Mine just took a wrong turn, got lost, and is too stubborn to ask for directions.
• As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let us down, probably will. You'll have your heart broken and you'll break others' hearts. You'll fight with your best friend or maybe even fall in love with them, and you'll cry because time is flying by. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, forgive freely, and love like you've never been hurt. Life comes with no guarantees, no time outs, no second chances. you just have to live life to the fullest, tell someone what they mean to you and tell someone off, speak out, dance in the pouring rain, hold someone's hand, comfort a friend, fall asleep watching the sun come up, stay up late, be a flirt, and smile until your face hurts. Don't be afraid to take chances or fall in love and most of all, live in the moment because every second you spend angry or upset is a second of happiness you can never get back.
• Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
• One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
• You can do anything, but not everything.
• Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
• The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.
• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
• When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
• To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
• We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
• Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
• Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
• Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
• Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
• I'd rather live with a good question than a bad answer.
• Don't ever wrestle with a pig. You'll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.
• I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
• The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
• Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
• Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
• Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
• I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought - Damn, I am less nurturing than a desert.
• If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
• We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
• A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
• Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
• I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
• Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
• One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
• Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
• The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
• There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
• The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
• When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.
• The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
• There are too many people, and too few human beings.
• If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
• Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
• People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
• A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
• Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
• All people, every one of them, are evil. In order to make themselves believe that they're good, they need to convince themselves that someone else is more evil.
• It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
• The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
• Science arose from poetry--when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
• Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important, and wishing never works.
• Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
• Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
• I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.
• He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain.
• You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.
• Complain to one who can help you.
• We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
• I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love the world, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.
• Of what do you wish to write?
- Of the heart.
• Do you know it?
- Not all of it.
• In time, you will. But even if that fails, that's what the imagination is for.
• If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
• Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
• Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
• When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
• It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
• In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.
• I was only trying to live my life in accordance with the principles which sprang from my own true self. Why was that so very difficult?
• He who wants to be born must destroy a world.
• If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
• The things we see are the same things that are within us. There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself. You can be happy that way. But once you know the other interpretation you no longer have the choice of following the crowd. Sinclair, the majority's path is an easy one, ours is difficult.
• I live in my dreams... Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.
• Nonetheless, I felt wretched. I lived in an orgy of self-destruction and, while my friends regarded me as a leader and as a damned sharp and funny fellow, deep down inside me my soul grieved.
• You consider yourself odd at times, you accuse yourself of taking a road different from most people. You have to unlearn that. Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak, surrender to them, don't ask first whether it's permitted or would please your teachers or father, or some god.
• One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.
• When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
• Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
• If you were to turn into a snake tomorrow, and began devouring humans, and from the same mouth that you devoured humans, you cried out to me "I love you!" Would I still be able to say "I love you," in the same way I do today?
• In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.
• I've lived in darkness a long time. Over the years my eyes adjusted until the dark became my world and I could see.
• Don't forget that I cannot see myself, that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror.
• "In hours of bliss we oft have met:
They could not always last;
And though the present I regret,
I'm grateful for the past."
• A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
• It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
• To him she seemed so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.
• You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.
• If we're all alone, then we're all together in that too.
• Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
• "Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
• "What makes the desert beautiful," says the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well."
• "For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. And it's not serious, trying to understand why flowers go to such trouble produce thorns that are good for nothing? It's not important, the war between the sheep and the flowers?...
• "Nothing's perfect," sighed the fox. "My life is monotonous. I hunt chickens; people hunt me. All chickens are just alike, and all men are just alike. So I'm rather bored. But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Other footsteps send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music. And then, look! You see the wheat fields over there? I don't eat bread. For me, wheat is no use whatever. Wheat fields say nothing to me. Which is sad. But you have hair the color of gold. So it will be wonderful, once you've tamed me! The wheat, which is golden, will remind me of you. And I'll love the sound of the wind in the wheat..."
• "You're lovely, but you're empty," he went on. "One couldn't die for you. Of course an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than you altogether, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass. Since she's the one I sheltered behind a screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except for two or three for butterflies). Since's she the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose."
• Well, I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. It seems that they are very beautiful.
• “Only the children know what they are looking for,” said the little prince. “They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry…” “They are lucky,” the switchman said.
• It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
• Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
• No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
• Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.
• Every night of my life, I watch angels fall from the sky. Every time that the sun still sets, I pray they don't take mine.
• The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before and he does it without destroying something else.
• A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
• We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
• If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
• In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
• Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
• A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
• The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
• When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you, yield to him, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
• You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.
• If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
• A little knowledge is dangerous. So is a lot.
• Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
• If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I.
• The Black Dahlia, she was someone who was just waiting for an executioner, waiting for it to happen. She was an ideal victim. I've met quite a few like her. They're just crying out, not just to be killed, but also tortured. She seemed very parasitic, a psychic vampire.
• What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, "This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!" Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer: "Never have I heard anything more divine?"
• One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.
• If you can't convince them, confuse them.
• What's the use of being the best when it brings out the worst in you?
• The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
• You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.
• There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
• When you strike at a king, you must kill him.
• Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
• Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
• If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
• When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.
• The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
• I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
• Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
• "A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; and plunging down
Forgot in cruel happiness
That even lovers drown."
• As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.
• Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
• We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
• God made me and broke the mold.
• When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
• It's all fun and games, until someone looses an eye... Than it's fun and games you can't see anymore.
• Just because you think you are a hypochondriac does not mean you aren't truly sick.
• Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them and they flew.
• The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
• We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
• I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
• If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried.
• Those of you who think you know everything are annoying to those of us who do.
• Pleasure is the disease, Pain is the cure.
• We're not in Wonderland anymore, Alice.
• Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
• Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.
• If you were born with no wings, don't do anything to stop them grow.
• The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
• If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
• We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.
• We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.
• A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
• Hell is the suffering of being unable to love.
• How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
• If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
• The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.
• There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
• Oh, do not attack me with your watch! A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
The Picture of Dorian Gray ♥
♣ But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
♣ An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.
♣ The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
♣ You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
♣ I know what conscience is, to begin with. It is not what you told me it was. It is the divinest thing in us. I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.
♣ There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realise his conception of the beautiful.
♣ Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
♣ There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
♣ Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
♣ I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
♣ He covered page after page with wild words of sorrow and wilder words of pain. There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
♣ Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
♣ Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it.
♣ You are much better than you pretend to be.
♣ But here was a visible symbol of the degradation of sin. Here was an ever-present sign of the ruin men brought upon their souls.
♣ For years, he could not free himself from the influence of this book. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he never sought to free himself from it.
♣ Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
♣ The prayer of your pride has been answered. The prayer of your repentance will be answered also. I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.
♣ It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. That is the reason I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
♣ It has development.
- Decay fascinates me more.
What of art? she asked.
- It is a malady.
Love?
- An illusion.
Religion?
- The fashionable substitute for belief.
You are a sceptic.
- Never! Scepticism is the beginning of faith.
What are you?
- To defne is to limit.
Give me a clue.
- Threads snap. You would lose your way in the labyrinth.
♣ Men have educated us.
- But not explained you.
♣ I wish I could love, but I seem to have lost the passion and forgotten the desire. I am too much concentrated on myself. My own personality has become a burden to me. I want to escape, to go away, to forget.
♣ Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. That is the reason why people who live out of town are so absolutely uncivilized. Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt. Country people have no opportunity of being either, so they stagnate.
♣ The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or made perfect. There is a soul in each one of us. I know it.
♣ The world has cried out against us both, but it has always worshipped you. It always will worship you. You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art.
♣ Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that. Promise me that you will never lend that book to any one. It does harm.
♣ It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
♣ I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
♣ Punctuality is the thief of time.
♣ Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
♣ Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
♣ Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
♣ I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
♣ Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
♣ It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.
♣ Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.
♣ Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
♣ Now, the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.
♣ If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
♣ Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.
♣ When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others.
♣ People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.
♣ There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
♣ To be in love is to surpass one's self.
♣ The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we're all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
♣ The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless. They lack individuality.
♣ When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
♣ Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
♣ When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
♣ I like men who have a future and woman who have a past.
♣ Destiny doesn't send heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
♣ Anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often.
♣ The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true.
♣ The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
♣ The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
Laying around, talking, cuddling and laughing all night with someone who is a good friend.
Memories of the good times of my life.
Singing.
Stuffed animals.
Guitars.
Dreaming and planning for the future.
When I remember my dreams.
Analyzing dreams.
Surprises.
Presents.
Finding the perfect gift for a loved one.
When people remember some obscure, quirky factoid about me, and use it to do something nice for me.
Feeling understood.
Emotional safety.
The moment I realise that someone really likes me as a person.
Being trusted.
Eating food cooked by someone who enjoys cooking.
Taking pictures.
Ancient ruins.
Being able to do something that others can not.
Hearing songs I used to love that I had forgotten existed.
Sarcasm.
Playing cards.
That bite feeling of pounding nails into a piece of wood.
The smell of a wood fire.
The smell of matches.
The smell of wet paint.
The way it smells after a rainstorm.
Rain.
Chocolate.
Coca ~ Cola (enjoy life).
Watching the stars.
Skipping meals, so then I can have one big later on.
Long walks.
When someone traces 'Wash Me' through the dirt on dirty cars.
Channel surfing.
When people eat chips and then lick their fingers.
When someone puts a box of empty something back in the cupboard.
Sharp or pointy things.
Dislikes
Animal abuse. (Animals are my greatest love and I just can not stand seeing them in any kind of pain.)
Jealousy.
Risks.
Numbers.
When someone else is in the center of attention.
Disillusion and betrayal.
When people blame other for their own deeds.
When you ask someone a question and they immediatly answer: "What?" and then, three seconds later, answer your question.
Talking on the phone.
Unrequited messages.
Mess.
Unorganized people.
Broken promises.
Stupid people using metaphores.
Liars and cowards.
Narrow mindedness.
Super hot boiling days.
Statistics of any kind.
Lack of grammar skill.
Impractical people.
Commercials in which people are talking about a new product like they have been using it all their lives.
People who are willing to search the entire room for the remote because they refuse to walk to the televison and change the channel manually.
Meaningless tattoos.
Human primitivity.
When people say: "It is always the last place you look"... Of course it is. Why the hell would you keep looking after you have found it?
Insects.
Clowns.
Public speeches.
Pointless meetings.
Having a bad feeling that something is going to happen but not knowing what.
When something is "new and improved". Which is it? If it is new, then there has never been anything before it. If it is an improvement, then there must have been something before it, could not be new.
Mayonnaise.
Wool that tingles.
The ordinary.
Slow service in restaurants or anywhere.
When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks: "Has the bus come yet?" - If the bus came, I would not be standing there...
Poor personal hygiene.
The fact that some people can eat twice their weight in food and still be really skinny.
Empty toliet paper rolls.
Snoring.
Hot chocolate made with water.
Repeating myself.
When someone is trying to talk to me when I am on the phone or watching a movie.
People that are late more than I am.
When it is hot in my bedroom while I am sleeping.
When my food touches each other.
Imitations.
People who refuse to stand for something.
People who stand for everything.
People thinking one thing, saying the other and doing the third one.
Fingers on a chalkboard. It gives me the chills.
The lack of individuality today.
Being sick.
Non - sticky tapes.
Getting into the shower, only to find there is not any hot water left.
Watching people I care about get hurt repeatedly in unhealthy relationships.
Confusion. Not being able to understand anything, even myself and my own feelings.
People who ask questions like: "What is wrong?", when both of you know they really do not care.
When I try to take a drink out of my glass forgetting that it is empty.
People who work in public service jobs that are rude... Why the Hell are they in public service then?!
Slow drivers.
People that think that just because something similar happened to them, is exactly the same thing that you are going through.
When someone at the public places has to yell on their cell phones so everyone can hear their conversation.
When someone calls me way too early in the morning.
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