L Quotes
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“Lei insegna all’università, vero? E quindi conosce William Blake.” “Sì, lo conosco un po’. Più come artista che come scrittore, a essere sincera.” “Quella sua poesia, Jerusalem... è molto bella, ma mi sconcerta.” “Come mai?” “And was Jerusalem builded here. Dice così, no? Ma non esiste la parola ‘builded’. Non è la parola giusta.” “No, non lo è, ma ‘builded’ funziona meglio in quel verso.” Mr Hu ci rifletté su e poi sorrise con ammirazione. “Vede, è questo che mi piace degli inglesi. Tutti vi credono un popolo affidabile, conservatore. Ma poi rompete sempre le regole. Se vi serve per ottenere ciò che volete, non vi fate alcun problema.” Rise felice. “Persino William Blake l’ha fatto.”
Source: Middle England
“LEI: Io mi alzo dopo di lui, lui va a letto prima di me.
LUI: Lei va a letto dopo di me, io mi alzo prima di lei.
LEI: Facciamo di tutto tranne l'amore.
LUI: È sorprendentemente facile.
LEI: Basta scordarti.
LUI: Che hai quelle cosine lì.
LEI: Per giocare a mamma e papà.
LUI: Come Ken.
LEI: Come Barbie.
LUI: Anche se i nostri corpi non sono d'accordo.
LEI: Anche se ci svegliano di notte.
LUI: Anche se si cercano senza trovarsi, ciascuno girato dalla sua parte.
LEI: Anche se ululano alla morte.
LUI: O all'amore.
LEI: O alla morte dell'amore.
LUI: Qui giacciamo noi.”
Source: Comme dans un film
“Lei lo fissò con quei suoi indomiti occhi azzurri. Avrebbero potuto ghigliottinarla, o bruciarla viva sul rogo: non avrebbe ceduto. Se si fosse mai sposato, rifletté Lomeli, avrebbe voluto una donna come quella.”
Source: Conclave
“Lei non è particolarmente sveglio, eh? Crede dunque che siano i libri 'a messaggio' a poter cambiare un individuo? Invece sono quelli che lo cambiano di meno. No, i libri che segnano e che trasformano sono gli altri, i libri di desiderio, di piacere, i libri di genio e soprattutto i libri di bellezza. [...] Non si è mai più gli stessi dopo aver letto un libro, anche se modesto.”
Source: Hygiène de l'assassin
“Lei si recava in biblioteca in media due volte a settimana, prendendo solo un libro o due per volta, perché ritornare a chiederne un altro era una delle sue poche gioie. Anche nei momenti in cui si sentiva più sola le piaceva trovarsi in mezzo ai libri, sebbene qualche volta fosse deprimente vedere il numero dei volumi che non aveva ancora letto.”
Source: The Assistant
“Lei si siede nell’angolo del divano. Discreta come se fosse solo di passaggio. Vedendola seduta lì, vicino a me, capisco che da troppo tempo non la guardo.
Ho conservato in me anche i minimi dettagli dei suoi tratti. La sua bellezza è sempre stata un mistero per me. Un’entità che non ho mai saputo scomporre. Un tutto, sensuale e femminile, desiderabile e materno, fragile e incrollabile.
Più di una volta avrei voluto mangiarla. La sua pelle, la sua carne di mela e il suo sapore zuccherino. Ho scritto il mio primo racconto e l’ho divorata, l’ho inghiottita, senza lasciare niente. Ho posato il suo corpo sulle mie pagine e il libro si è richiuso. Quello che mi aveva impedito di fare dodici anni prima posando la sua mano sulla mia l’avevo fatto alle sue spalle, senza che lei potesse dire niente, senza che potesse farmi ragionare.
Oggi che la nostra storia è diventata una storia, che i nostri personaggi vivono in autonomia, è tempo di ritrovarla.”
Source: La Vie, après
“Lei è il paese dove voglio vivere.”
Source: Il giorno in più
“Lei è simile alle montagne russe. Piange e ride. Rimango stordito di continuo. Solo grazie a lei il mio mondo, che era grigio, si è riempito di colori. Quindi è una persona molto forte e brillante!”
Source: 四月は君の嘘 8 [Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso 8]
“Leia a lei.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Leia as minhas vértebras.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Leia as profecias em minhas cicatrizes.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Leia follows me like a vague smell.”
“Leia let go of all the frustration she felt at Han’s long absences, all the bickering they’d never grown out of. In the end, she knew, he would always come through.”
Source: Bloodline
“Leia studied her face. The girl was close, so close to something big. Bigger than Leia, maybe even Luke, if that was possible. But Leia knew that she wasn't the one to ultimately get here there, that would be someone else.”
Source: Resistance Reborn
“Leia would never hold someone's past against them. She had enough demons in her family tree to guarantee she was not one to judge.”
Source: Resistance Reborn
“Leibniz accepted the argument that there must be indestructible simple entities if there is to be a complex world, but Epicurean morals and politics and anti-theology dismayed him. His 'monadology' which said that the true atoms of nature were unextended 'living mirrors,' was an imaginative and beautiful system, and even in many ways more modern than Epicurean atomism, than Epicurean atomism, but there was a reactionary aspect to it.”
“Leibniz believed in freedom, both divine and human, and he thought that contingency was a necessary condition of freedom. That is, if an agent A acts freely when choosing X, then A's choosing X cannot be necessary. But there are some elements in his philosophy that seem to make contingency impossible.”
“Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.”
“Leibniz endeavored to provide an account of inference and judgment involving the mechanical play of symbols and very little else. The checklists that result are the first of humanity's intellectual artifacts. They express, they explain, and so they ratify a power of the mind. And, of course, they are artifacts in the process of becoming algorithms.”
Source: The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World
“Leibniz is at the disadvantage of not having seen it. Or perhaps we should count this as an advantage, for anyone who sees it is dumbfounded by the brilliance of the geometry, and it is difficult to criticize a man’s work when you are down on your knees shielding your eyes.”
“Leibniz mapped the principles concerning the conservation of energy, but nobody has yet scientifically diagrammed the conservation of emotion - have they? How is this subsumed pain vented? Is it released in my art? I hope so, but I also suspect that it's emitted in my sleep.”
“Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.”
“Leibniz rejected the idea that fundamental reality was made up of material atoms; he posited instead that mind, particularly the Divine Mind, was the ground of reality manifest in all the infinite monads. In this theory, Leibniz actually presages many twentieth-century developments in quantum physics, including the theories of Wolfgang Pauli and psychiatrist Carl Jung regarding the continuity of the inner concepts of the psyche and the outer archetypes encountered in the world of physics. For Jung, psyche—or mind—bridged that gap, and Leibniz would agree, arguing that reality is, at base, conscious. I also see similarity between Maximus the Confessor and his logoi. For all these thinkers, reality was grounded in the mind of God, though they differ quite a bit in what that entails and how that is.”
Source: Meta-Narratives: Essays on Philosophy and Symbolism
“Leibniz’s assertion that we live in the best of all possible worlds is, no matter what present appearances suggest, absolutely true – because the issue has to be considered over an entire cosmic Age, not just one snapshot in time. All the horrors of today are necessary for the glories of tomorrow. They provide the dialectical obstacles we must overcome, and we do so by becoming more and more perfect ourselves.”
Source: The Last Man Who Knew Everything
“Leibniz’s brilliant monadic system naturally gives rise to calculus (the main tool of mathematics and science). But it was not Leibniz who linked the energy of monads to waves – that was done later following the work of the French genius Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier on Fourier series and Fourier transforms. Nevertheless, Leibniz’s idea of energy originating from countless mathematical points and flowing across a plenum is indeed the first glimpse in the modern age of “field theory” that now underpins contemporary physics. Leibniz was centuries ahead of his time. Leibniz’s system is entirely mathematical. It brings mathematics to life. The infinite collection of monads constitutes an evolving cosmic organism, unfolding according to mathematical laws.”
Source: The Last Man Who Knew Everything
“Leibniz’s system is compatible with infinite divisibility,
culminating – at infinity – with the indivisible monadic singularity. Materialism has no compatibility with singularities. The laws of physics are explicitly said to break down at singularities. That’s because singularities are mental frequency domains and science religiously believes only in spacetime and matter. Singularities are beyond science’s Meta Paradigm and ideology.”
Source: The Forbidden History of Science
“Leibniz wanted to combine physics, mathematics, logic, and philosophy, and he would no doubt have loved this joke:
An engineer, a mathematician, a logician, and a philosopher were traveling through Scotland when they saw a black sheep through the window of the train.
"Aha", says the engineer, "I see that Scottish sheep are black."
"Hmm", says the mathematician, "You mean that some Scottish sheep are black."
"No", says the logician, "All we know is that there is at least one black sheep in Scotland."
"And even", the philosopher continued, "The only thing we can be really sure of is that the side facing us is black.”
Source: Homo Informatix
“Leica are known for their still camera lenses and in the last year and a half have come out with a series of film lenses and they are brilliant. The best thing about them, apart from their quality, which is uniform, is that each one is the same size, pretty much the same weight... So in terms of fitting into the rig, everything is almost purpose built for that and the quality is beautiful, really beautiful.”
“Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.”
“Leicester stared fixedly at the image before him, the color bleached from his face by its brilliance. Seph sensed the headmaster's mind questing out, trying to discover and destroy the wizard behind the image, but finding nothing, no trail of magic, no stone, no flesh and blood to focus on. Jason Haley, the puppeteer, was safely ensconced in the gallery above.”
“Leidt de vrede, waar de mensheid te allen tijde naar heeft verlangd en die tot nu toe maar in zo weinig delen van de wereld is verwezenlijkt, er alleen toe dat hij niet wordt gedeeld met degenen die er hun toevlucht zoeken, maar zo agressief wordt verdedigd dat hij er zelf bijna uitziet als een oorlog?”
Source: Gehen, ging, gegangen
“Leie:
Je denkt dat er niets meer is om op te wachten. Niets behalve de dood, maar daar kun je niet op wachten, dat duurt je veel te lang, die zul je een handje moeten helpen. Het lukt niet, er komt iets tussen, er komt iemand tussen, het is een klein meisje met een bril dat van puzzels houdt. En op een zeker moment doe je de deur op een kieren ontdek je dat er in de nacht iets voor je is neergelegd. Een bundeltje verwachting. Het kleine begin van hoop. De ongehoorde gedachte dat het leven daar is waar je het het laatst verwachtte.”
“Leie:
Nu en dan steekt het kleine verlangen de kop weer op en daarmee de hoop, dan gaat Dirk achter me liggen en duwt zijn knieën in mijn knieholten en rust ik in zijn armen als een komma in plaats van een punt tot ik het niet meer verdraag, tot ik hem niet meer verdraag en mezelf niet, tot de gevechten weer beginnen en alles moet sneuvelen.
Als het heel moeilijk wordt denk ik aan het kind dat zomaar gekomen is, dat er nog iets voor me in het verschiet ligt en dat ik moet doorgaan en niet versagen.”
Source: De kaalvreter
“Leif gripped Benny's shoulders to hold him back, but he broke free and chased the truck, pumping his tiny arms and legs with great furry.
"I love you!" he called out, when he was just ten feet away. I gripped the metal bars, my throat choked with emotion.
"I love you!" Silas cried, as he followed.
They both kept after us, sprinting wildly behind the cage. I watched their mouths moving, saying those words over and again, as the truck bounded through the woods and their small bodies disappeared, unreachable, behind the trees.”
Source: Eve
“Leif's frown eased and he slid his finger under my chin and gently caressed my jaw line with the pad of his thumb. "Pagan,will you do me the honor of being my date for Homecoming Dance?The prospect of not being able to hold you in my arms all night is heartbreaking." Mirand sighed from across the table. "Okay,that was beautiful.Why didn't you ask me like that?"she asked Wyatt. Wyatt shot Leif an annoyed frown. "Thanks,buddy.Next time you decide to break out your romantic side,could you do it alone?”
“Leigh [Bowery] affected a posh English voice and elongated his vowels, and you never knew if he was being sincere or mocking you. If I ever commented on one of his outfits he would snip, "Oh, thank you, Mr. Boy George. I do value your opinion." And then he would spin and make some ridiculous noise and mince off.”
“Leigh [Bowery] obviously loved having me in the club because I would attract media, and he loved and lived for his column inches.”
“Leigh [Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them - Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who would never grace the door of Taboo.”
“Leigh [Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the door.”
“Leigh Bowery created outfits that made him look deformed, which was very brave. I believe this was the main thing that gave Leigh his edge. His designs were often breath-taking, but it was the way he used his body that was so utterly new and refreshing.”
“Leigh Bowery was actually quoted as saying, "Flesh is my most favorite fabric." I've seen many a freak make a scene and go, but Leigh was a special kind of exhibitionist because he was dedicated and saw it as an art form.”
“Leigh did what any sane female faced with such an e-mail would do: deleted it to resist the temptation of replying, cleared her trash to resist the temptation of recalling it, and then called tech support to restore all her recently deleted e-mails. (Chasing Harry Winston)”
Source: Chasing Harry Winston: A Novel
“Leigh stands there, not so much a figure to scare crows as to beckon doves.”
Source: The Salt Point
“Leila Saatchi never gave orders, never had to. It was a knack she had. Her suggestions were so compelling.”
Source: Hermetech
“Leila. Schoolgirls are like sports cars. They're nice to look at, but they're impractical. In the end, they don't do what you need them to do."
I had to stifle my smile, he looked so serious. Then I stole a glance back at the lithe-limbed shadows beneath the tress. "Is that so?"
"It's true. They won't let you take them up the arse. They're rubbish at sucking you. You want to ride them at a hundred miles a hour, but you end up doing forty in the sixty zone because you're too fucking scared of damaging them.”
Source: Chairman of the Whored
“Leilani smiles. I'm surprised she knows how. For a second i'm certain she's isn't like Rosa”
“Leinenkugels makes better beer now that Miller bought them. It will license insecure people to like craft beers.”
“Leinster House does not inspire the brightest ideas.”
“Leise lachten sie. Es waren heimtückische Wesen, die Bücher. Sie verschlangen einen mit Haut und Haaren, wenn man sich zu sehr auf sie einließ, außerdem hielten sie allzeit böse Worte für ihn bereit. Geschichten über Krieg, Tod, Eifersucht und Gier. Und sie alle waren voller schlechter Menschen.”
Source: Menschenhunger
“Leise nippe ich an meinem Kaffee, sitze auf der Terrasse, eingekuschelt in meinem kleinen Dschungel von Kräutern und summenden Bienen, lasse meine Gedanken wandern, durchtränkt von der Wärme der aufgehenden Sonne.
Atme die weiche Luft ein und aus
fülle den Moment mit Fluids von Frieden.”