Favourite Quotations (Moderator: Frederique)

He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.

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We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a physical experience.

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Holding on is believing that there's only a past; letting go is knowing there's a future.

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Έρωτας και θάνατος είναι ίδια ύλη. Λέω ύλη για να μην πω κάτι που δεν θα ήταν δόκιμο. Ο θάνατος κρύβεται μέσα στη ζωή, άρα και μέσα στον έρωτα που είναι αναπόσπαστο τμήμα της. Ο έρωτας υπάρχει για να ξεπερνιέται η προσωρινότητα της ζωής.

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if the world was perfect, it wouldn't be → αν ο κόσμος ήταν τέλειος, δεν θα υπήρχε | αν ο κόσμος ήταν τέλειος, δεν θα ήταν

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A no-smoking area in a restaurant is like a no peeing area in a swimming pool → Το να έχεις ένα τμήμα καπνιστών σε ένα εστιατόριο είναι σαν να έχεις ένα τμήμα ούρησης σε μια πισίνα

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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

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This was the body of a beautiful young woman, conventionally an object of desire, and yet it was a body from which all desire had been eliminated. But this was nothing so crass as carnal desire, not for her—rather, or so it seemed, what she had renounced was the very life that her body represented.

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After you died I couldn't hold a funeral, So these eyes that once beheld you became a shrine. These ears that once heard your voice became a shrine. These lungs that once inhaled your breath became a shrine.

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I'm fighting alone, every day. I fight with the hell that I survived. I fight with the fact of my own humanity. I fight with the idea that death is the only way of escaping this fact.

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Soundlessly, and without fuss, some tender thing deep inside me broke. Something that, until then, I hadn't even realized was there.

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I want to swallow you, have you melt into me and flow through my veins.

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Some memories never heal. Rather than fading with the passage of time, those memories become the only things that are left behind when all else is abraded. The world darkens, like electric bulbs going out one by one. I am aware that I am not a safe person.

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Life is such a strange thing, she thinks, once she has stopped laughing. Even after certain things have happened to them, no matter how awful the experience, people still go on eating and drinking, going to the toilet and washing themselves - living, in other words. And sometimes they even laugh out loud. And they probably have these same thoughts, too, and when they do it must make them cheerlessly recall all the sadness they'd briefly managed to forget.

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After you died I could not hold a funeral, And so my life became a funeral.

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The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure. She had believed in her own inherent goodness, her humanity, and lived accordingly, never causing anyone harm. Her devotion to doing things the right way had been unflagging, all her successes had depended on it, and she would have gone on like that indefinitely. She didn't understand why, but faced with those decaying buildings and straggling grasses, she was nothing but a child who

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