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“Everything is as vain as stirring up cold ashes, as vague as the moment just before dawn. And the light falls so serenely and perfectly on things, gilds them with such a sad, smiling reality. The whole mystery of the world appears before my eyes carved out of this banality, this street. Ah, how mysteriously the everyday things of life brush by us! On the surface, touched by light, of this complex human life, Time, like a hesitant smile, blooms on the lips of the Mystery! How modern all this sounds, yet deep down it is so ancient, so hidden, so different from the meaning that shines out from all of this!”

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Book:The Book of Disquiet
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“You know what is the most complicated feature of human nature? It is the term complication itself. We are never satisfied with keeping things simple. We always tend to exaggerate even the simplest phenomenon of this planet.”

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Book:What is Mind?
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“Our fascination with feminine beauty is elemental. It is said that men wish to possess the princess and women wish to be the princess, but I believe that is only part of the truth. We are drawn to extraordinary beauty mindlessly and purposelessly; we flutter on dusty moth wings toward the effulgence with no understanding of why we do it. Perhaps when we see a woman with the aspect of an angel, our souls are tricked into following her, mistaking her for a guide to paradise. The opposite, of course, is also true.”

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Book:All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella’s Stepmother
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“The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in - telephonic, telepathic, technological and relational to alter even the slightest bit of behaviour in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardedness of primitive peoples and their physical work. This is particularly true of unnecessary mental complexities. One should always prefer pure physical effort and, for preference, keep mental energy for sensual pleasures alone. The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.”

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Book:Cool memories
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“Nothing speaks more accurately to the complexity of life than food. Who has not had, let us say, a béarnaise, the child of hollandaise, and has not come away from the taste of it feeling overwhelmed? At first, it fills the mouth with the softness of butter and then the richness of egg, and before it becomes too rich or too comfortable, the moment shifts and begins to ground itself in darkness with the root of a shallot and the hint of crushed peppercorn. But then, the taste deepens. The memory of rebirth is made manifest with the sacred chervil, sweet and grassy with a note of licorice, whose spring scent is so like myrrh that it recalls the gift of the Wise Men and the holy birth whenever it is tasted. And then, of course, the "King of Herbs," tarragon with its gentle licorice, reminds us not to forget that miracles are possible. And just when we think we understand what we are experiencing, the taste turns again on the tongue, and finishes with shrill vinegar followed by a reduction of wine so that the acid tempers the sauce but never dominates.”

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Book:White Truffles in Winter
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“Galimas daiktas, kad mano gyvenimas priklauso nuo vieno iš šių žmonių, kurie čia slenka pro mano akis; galimas daiktas, kad štai prie mano durų yra žmogus, kurio aš laukiu, arba žmogus, kuris manęs laukia. Bet daug žmonių yra prie mano durų. Jeigu ten yra ir tas, apie kurį kalbu, kaip jį pažint?" Privatinis žmonių gyvenimas, viešas tautų gyvenimas, slaptas nujautimas, literatūra, romanas, istorija, praeities atsiminimai, dabarties reikalai, ateities laukimas - visa sako žmogui, kad jam gali prireikti spėti, o gerai spėti taisyklių nėra. Štai kur kyla sfinksas.”

Complexity Of Life
Book:Žmogus: gyvenimas, mokslas, menas: D. 1
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