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“Mi s-a părut că am înțeles, încă din acea perioadă, că oamenii, evenimentele, istoria sunt întotdeauna ambigui și că acordul spiritelor este arareori altceva decât o neînțelegere binecuvântată de zei.”

Book:Din voia Domnului

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“Sistemele se prăbușeșc pentru că sunt sisteme. Dar tocmai pentru că sunt sisteme, elementele care le alcătuiesc rămân multă vreme fără întrebuințare după năruirea ansamblului ale cărui părți erau. Lipsite de legăturile și de sensul lor, ele întâmpină multe greutăți ca să se organizeze din nou. Nu reuseșc, în realitate, decât constituind noi sisteme, la fel de geniale și la fel de nedrepte ca și cele care le-au precedat - poate ceva mai geniale și ceva mai nedrepte? aceasta-i întrebarea -, dar care, în orice caz, vor fi distruse la rândul lor. E ceea ce denumim istorie în care, ca în acele teorii ale fizicii unde alternează explicațiile de undă cu cele prin corpuscul, se pot citi fără deosebire etapele conștiinței către desăvârșirea sa sau succesiunea nedefinită a formelor, a evoluțiilor și a ciclurilor, mai mult sau mai puțin lipsite de sens, mai bogată în orice caz în iluzii decât în progres.”

Istorie Sistem Multime

Book:Din voia Domnului

Source: Din voia Domnului

“My homeland,' says the guest, 'no longer exists. My homeland was Poland, Vienna, this house, the barracks in the city, Galicia, and Chopin. What’s left? Whatever mysterious substance held it all together no longer works. Everything’s come apart. My homeland was a feeling, and that feeling was mortally wounded. When that happens, the only thing to do is go away.”

Feelings Patriotism Homeland Austria Hungary

Book:Embers

Source: Embers

“The struggle had been a people's war. The suffering and sacrifice had been immense. Those who survived the ordeal were left with the question of what it had all been for.”

War Germany World War One Last Lines Austria Hungary Ring Of Steel

Book:Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I

Source: Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I

“In vielen österreichischen Einheiten sprachen Offiziere und Mannschaften unterschiedliche Sprachen. So berichtete der Stabschef des österreichischen I. Korps bei der Schlacht von Münchengrätz, dass das gemischte polnische und ukrainische 30. Regiment tapfer bis zum Einbruch der Dämmerung gekämpft habe, die Männer dann aber nicht mehr in das Lage gewesen seien, die pantomimisch erteilten Anweisungen ihrer Offiziere zu erkennen.”

Austria Hungary

Book:Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947

Source: Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947

“Культура империи была аристократична, но аристократизм вообще есть основа всякой высокой культуры. (Вот почему, кстати, народы, по какой-либо причине оказавшиеся лишенными или никогда не имевшие собственной «узаконенной» элиты — дворянства и т.п., не создали, по существу, ничего достойного мирового уровня, во всяком случае, их вклад в этом отношении несопоставим с вкладом народов, таковую имевшими.) Сама сущность высоких проявлений культуры глубоко аристократична: лишь немногие способны делать что-то такое, чего не может делать большинство (будь то сфера искусства, науки или государственного управления). Наличие соответствующей среды, свойственных ей идеалов и представлений абсолютно необходимо как для формирования и поддержания потребности в существовании высоких проявлений культуры, так и для стимуляции успехов в этих видах деятельности лиц любого социального происхождения.”

Culture Aristocracy Russian Empire

Book:Почему РФ - не Россия

Source: Почему РФ - не Россия

“It was Wallachia---her land, her mother---greeting her. This was how church was supposed to feel. She had never experienced the divine spirit within a church's walls, but on this peak, in this countryside, she felt peace and purpose and belonging. This was the glory of God. This was Wallachia, This was hers.”

Experience Wallachia

Book:And I Darken

Source: And I Darken

“Time has a different meaning for me, and these events that seem so monumental in the moment will one day be nothing more than a line in a scroll. These humans are but letters to be inked into history. A hundred years from now, I will be free. I will have forgotten their names and faces, and the struggles they have will not matter. Time has a way of burying things, shifting like the desert and swallowing entire civilizations, erasing them from map and memory. Always, in the end, everything returns to dust.”

People Time Civilization Dust Desert

Book:The Forbidden Wish

Source: The Forbidden Wish

“But if one doesn't really exist, one wonders why..." she hesitated. "Why one makes such a fuss about things," Anthony suggested. "All that howling and hurrahing and gnashing of teeth. About the adventures of a self that isn't really a self—just the result of a lot of accidents. And of course," he went on, "once you start wondering, you see at once that there is no reason for making such a fuss. And then you don't make a fuss—that is, if you're sensible. Like me," he added, smiling.”

Existentialism Absurdity Nihilism Brave New World Huxley Absurdism Aldous Huxley Aldous Eyeless In Gaza

Book:Eyeless In Gaza

Source: Eyeless In Gaza

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