C Quotes
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“Ceci est une idée à laquelle je ne saurais m’associer parce que je n’en vois pas la nécessité. Rien ne prouve qu’il en soit ainsi. Rien ne prouve que la civilisation, si compliquée et si intéressante qu’elle soit, ne soit pas à la merci d'un incident quelconque. Elles sont mortelles, les civilisations, elles peuvent mourir d’un siècle à l’autre, et il n’est pas dit que la civilisation européenne ne fasse pas comme les civilisations égyptienne, grecque ou romaine, qui ont disparu et qui ont été remplacées par des époques de barbarie et de sauvagerie. Peut-être en sommes-nous beaucoup plus près que nous ne pensons.
C’est pourquoi au mot progrès je préfère le mot aventure, c’est-à-dire cette non-salvation, ce changement intime qui se produit, changement qui ne sait pas de lui-même à quoi il aboutit, qui ne sait pas lui-même où il va, s’il court à une catastrophe ou à une amélioration, ceci est en dehors de la question. Le sort même des humains n’est pas en question, pas plus que dans un rêve ce qui va se passer n’est en question. Il n’y a pas de but. Chaque instant est capable de conduire là où on ne savait pas aller.”
Excerpt From: Paul Valéry. “Cours de poétique”. Apple Books. d’un incident quel”
Source: Cours de poétique (Tome 1) - Le corps et l'esprit (1937-1940)
“Cecie keeps telling him she’d like to take him home some night, husband or no. The Minotaur waits hopefully. Husband or no.”
Source: The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
“Cecil abandoned one of his regular jobs and with some money he had saved up he spent the winter months studying and composing. In the spring a contract came up for a few days, in a Brooklyn bar, where the experience of that first night repeated itself yet again. While he was returning home by train, the movement, the passage of the immobile stations brought about in him a state conducive to thinking. So he realized that the logic of the whole thing was perfectly clear, and wondered why he hadn’t seen it earlier: in all of the stories which Hollywood had brainwashed him with, there is always a musician who isn’t appreciated at the beginning but is at the end. There was the error: in the passage from failure to success, as if they were point A and point B, connected by a line. In reality failure is infinite, because it is infinitely divisible, which isn’t possible with success.”
Source: Cecil Taylor
“Cecil Castellucci is writing Shade, who is the perfect writer for it. I love her young adult stuff, and it's pretty hardcore and visceral, so I knew she was going to bring that to the book.”
“Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word. "Equals?" Miles hazarded. "Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously.”
Source: Vorkosigan's Game
“Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."”
“Cecile was teaching in Berkeley and I was [at Livermore]. He probably had, could have had, some influence on Teller, [for] Teller was quite generous in allowing me one whole semester off to be at Berkeley to work on something and also a semester off at the Institute for Advanced Study. Then I won the Gravity Research Foundation first prize.”
“Cecilia Goossens en Petra Hermans kennen de waardigheid.”
“Cecilia had unleashed her blood in the bath, Amy Schraff said, because the ancient Romans had done that when life became unbearable.”
Source: The Virgin Suicides
“Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.”
“Cecilia wondered, as she sometimes did when she met a man for the first time, if this was the one she was going to marry, and whether it was this particular moment she would remember for the rest of her life - with gratitude, or profound and particular regret.”
“Cecily pointed out that writing about the different flavors of unhappiness was all well and good, but the plan was to get Kate back to happy--- and to focus more on that.
She'd loved doing it, though, and by the time she'd written down "Lunch for When You're Thoroughly Bored with Yourself"--- slow-roast chicken with lemon and harissa, with a butter-drenched baked potato, followed by warm chocolate-cookie pudding with cream--- any urge to contact Nick had passed, and she was back to thinking he was an idiot--- and that she was not only the icing but the whole entire cake.”
Source: Miss Cecily's Recipes for Exceptional Ladies
“Cecily said, "That's the difference between optimism and naivety. No one in this room is naive. Naive people haven't been through real trials yet, so they think it could never happen to them. Optimists have been through it already, and we keep getting up each day because we believe we can keep it from happening again. Or we trick ourselves into thinking it."
Richard said, "All belief is a trick.”
Source: The Great Believers
“Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“Cecy, I do think it is unfair. People in novels are fainting all the time, and I never can, no matter how badly I need to.”
Source: Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot
“Cecy, what are you doing here?" She took a step forward, then paused on the threshold, glancing down at her bare feet. “I could ask of you the same.” “I like to talk to the horses at night. They make good company. And you should not be out and about in your nightgown. There are Lightwoods wandering these halls.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“Cedamos al prudente, perdonemos al insensato.”
Source: Of Anger
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“Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.”
Source: The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan
“Cedars are terribly sensitive to change of time and light - sometimes they are bluish cold-green, then they turn yellow warm-green - sometimes their boughs flop heavy and sometimes float, then they are fairy as ferns and then they droop, heavy as heartaches.”
Source: Sunlight in the shadows: the landscape of Emily Carr
“Cedo le armi. L'idea di Roma come spazio franco e rifugio di banditi: ecco qualcosa di affine. C'è qualcosa di antico nell'immagine del fuggiasco che viaggia nella tempesta, vede una capanna, bussa e viene accolto. Il templum. Il sacro perimetro che ti salva. Il luogo rifugio che nelle lingue del Mediterraneo d'Oriente ha lo stesso nome della santità. Barak. La baracca. Che poi sta alla radice di Barka, la gens di Annibale, e di Barcellone. Il vino ha chiuso il cerchio.”
Source: Appia
“Cedo ou tarde, na vida, cada um de nós se dá conta de que a felicidade completa é irrealizável; poucos, porém, atentam para a reflexão oposta: que também é irrealizável a infelicidade completa. Os motivos que se opõem à realização de ambos os estados-limite são da mesma natureza; eles vêm de nossa condição humana, que é contra qualquer “infinito”.”
Source: If this is a Man: Remembering Auschwitz
“Cedo ou tarde sucumbo à impotência: retorno a ciclos viciosos, pago tributo a tragédias tão antigas quanto os grandes dilúvios.”
Source: Asfixia
“Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.”
“Ceea ce acum poarta numele de filosofie naturala, cuprinzand intregul cerc al stiintei, unde astronomia ocupa pozitia principala, reprezinta studiul lucrarii lui Dumnezeu si al puterii si intelepciunii lui Dumnezeu din lucrarea Sa, aceasta fiind adevarata teologie. [...] Cat despre teologia studiata acum in locul acesteia, este vorba despre studiul opiniilor si inchipuirilor omenesti despre Dumnezeu.”
Source: Epoca rațiunii
“Ceea ce am mai bun în mine se datorează suferinței. Nu o iubesc, dar nici nu o condamn.”
“Ceea ce dai, Momo, este al tau pentru mereu. Ceea ce păstrezi este pierdut pentru totdeauna.”
Source: Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran: Oberstufe
“Ceea ce e neplăcut în viață e că ea urmează un curs. Lucrurile cele mai jinduite, odată devenite reale, pierd tocmai acel ceva insesizabil care a făcut ca ele să fie dorite. Şi asta, prin realizarea lor exact aşa cum au fost visate.”
Source: Jurnalul unei fete greu de mulţumit
“Ceea ce legi tu aici pe pământ - se leagă şi în ceruri.”
“Ceea ce nu e destul nu e nimic.”
Source: Un om norocos
“Ceea ce nu poate fi pus în cuvinte poate fi priceput doar prin tăcere.”
Source: The Forty Rules of Love
“Ceea ce numește lumea "imaginație" nu este o combinație aleatorie de lucruri și evenimente născocite de minte, ci este chiar descrierea realității în care trăiești de la un alt nivel de conștiință.”
Source: De la Big Bang la Dumnezeu, mintea care te minte
“Ceea ce oamenii de pe Pământ numesc „Rai” și „Iad” sunt, de fapt, modurile în care ei abordează situațiile oriunde s-ar afla, cât și ceea ce manifestă fiecare individ ca circumstanțe ale vieții sale.”
Source: Matthew, Tell me about Heaven: A Firsthand Description of the Afterlife
“Ceea ce simţea pentru ea era una, iar ceea ce îi făcuse ea era altceva.”
Source: The Woman in the Dunes
“Ceea ce încercau, în schimb, să facă poeţii şi pictorii japonezi se poate ilustra excelent printr-o anecdotă celebră. Se spune că într-o zi un mare general, îmbrăcat într-o armură strălucitoare, aştepta o vizita. Fu informat că urma să vină cineva care nu trebuia să-i vadă îmbrăcat în armură, aşa că îşi trase pe el în grabă o mantie uşoară de mătase albă. Efectul dat de sclipirea armurii lustruite prin mătasea subţire este cel spre care năzuiau poeţii. Scriitorii japonezi n-au dorit niciodată să descrie întreaga măreţie a generalului cu armură, nici toată frumuseţea unei zile de primăvară. Ei au preferat să vorbească despre sclipirile metalului, sau despre înflorirea unei singure flori, făcîndu-ne astfel pe noi să ne imaginăm restul întregului din care s-au distilat aceste citeva picături.”
Source: Japanese Literature: An Introduction for Western Readers
“Cega, cega estrella.
A l'hora foscant
l'òliba clara
porta meravella.
Arrenca'm l'estella
d'enamorada.
Boja, boja lluna.
A l'hora foscant
l'òliba clara
crema a la llacuna,
boja, boja lluna
d'enamorada.”
Source: Cau de llunes
“Cehalet ve fakirlik yüzünden dünyada yaşayan her insan aynı çağda yaşamıyor!”
“Cehaletin mutluluk olduğu yerde, aklı başında olmak deliliktir.”
Source: Oburluk Çağı: Felsefe ve Politik-Psikoloji Denemeleri
“Cehennem, ateş, lanet, yakmak, kesmek gibi sözcükleri kullanan herhangi bir din asla bir sevgi dini olamaz çünkü bir sevgi dini sadece sevgi dilini, sadece sevginin tatlı sözcüklerini kullanmalıdır, karanlığın ve işkencenin sözcüklerini değil!”
“Cehennem’in eşiğine gelmiş kişilerin şeytandan ödü kopuyordu; zaten cehennemin içinde olanlar içinse şeytan özel biri değildi, yalnızca başka biriydi, o kadar.”
Source: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
“Cehennem insanları cehennemden konuşur, sevgi insanları sevgiden konuşur!”
“cehennem kavramı -yanıkların verdiği acıdan olduğu ölçüde- ateşi ve her şeyi yutan, kül eden bir şey olarak görmelerinden doğmuştur.”
Source: Ways of Seeing
“Cehennem kendisi için müşteri bulmak için çok güzel görünmelidir ve çöller tam olarak bunu yapar!”
“Cehennemde serin bir yer bulmaya çalışan bir adamla cehennemi yok etmeye çalışan adam arasında büyük bir fark vardır: Birincisi kendisini, ikincisi de herkesi kurtarmaya çalışmaktadır!”
“Cehenneme giden bir yoldaysan, ilginç bir deneyim elde etmek için yolculuğuna bir süre devam edebilirsin, ancak yolun bitiminden önce bir U dönüşü yapmayı unutma!”
“Cehenneme giderken dondurma yemeli insan. Dudaklarından akmalı vanilya.”
Source: Oda
“Cehennemi ararken cenneti bulan bir adam mutlu olur mu? Hayır, olmaz, çünkü aradığını değil aramadığını bulmuştur!”
“Cehennemin içindeyken cehennemin dışındaki güzellikleri görebiliyorsan eğer, o zaman cehennemden kurtulma şansın büyük demektir!”
“Cei mai mari demoni ni-i creăm singuri”
Source: Demonul lui Marjorie
“Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room.”