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Quotes by Romanian Authors
"Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave."
"When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit."
"No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one."
"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."
"A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions."
"Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen."
"What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?"
"Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh."
"To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring."
"Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth."
"Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself."
"The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it."
"Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls."
"He Loved perfectly an unperfect me."
"My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians."
"Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all."
"I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me."
"In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world."
"I assure you I will not miss the chance to show you that you were right when you voted for me."
"Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it."
"So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes."
"If we open our mind, doors will open without keys."
"We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void."
"I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that."
"Was there ever something not known before it was recognized?"
"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."
"Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us."
"Make people feel great when they feel small. Make them feel responsible when they feel great."
"Mediocracy is not an option, it s a temptation."
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