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“A mi edad, empezaba a darme cuenta de que, más que las cosas, lo importante es la ilusión que ponemos en ellas. Eso nos hace personas.”
― Jo confesso
― Jo confesso
“But what are you? Buddhist? Japanese? Communist? What?’ ‘I’m nothing.’ ‘Can you be nothing?’ I never knew how to answer that question when I was asked it as a child, because the wording troubled me. Can you be nothing? I will be nothing.”
― Confessions
― Confessions
“Książki, która nie zasługuje na ponowne przeczytanie, nie warto było czytać w ogóle.”
― Jo confesso
― Jo confesso
“every day I read and every day I realise that I have everything left to read. And every once in a while I reread, even though I only reread that which deserves the privilege of rereading.”
― Confessions
― Confessions
“Generaciones y generaciones de baile frenético de millones de espermatozoides persiguiendo óvulos, concepciones casuales, muertes, aniquilaciones..., y ahora tú y yo estamos aquí, el uno frente al otro, como si no hubiera podido ser de ninguna otra manera. Como si sólo hubiera existido la posibilidad de un único árbol genealógico.”
― Jo confesso
― Jo confesso
“A veces me asusta el poder del arte y del estudio del arte. A veces no entiendo por qué la humanidad se relaciona a porrazos habiendo, como hay, tantas cosas por hacer.”
― Jo confesso
― Jo confesso
“Once you’ve had a taste of artistic beauty, your life changes. Once you’ve heard the Monteverdi choir sing, your life changes. Once you’ve seen a Vermeer up close, your life changes; once you’ve read Proust, you are never the same again. What I don’t know is why.”
― Confessions
― Confessions
“A verdadeira arte provem da tristeza, a felicidade não é criativa.”
― Jo confesso
― Jo confesso
“Evil. Why does your God allow it? He doesn’t keep evil from happening: all he does is punish the evildoer with eternal flames. Why doesn’t he prevent it? Do you have an answer?”
― Confessions
― Confessions
“–L’art de debò prové d’alguna frustració. Des de la felicitat no es crea.”
― Jo confesso
― Jo confesso
“Ολη η παιδική μου ηλικία στο σπίτι έχει καταγραφεί στο μυαλό μου σαν διαφάνειες από πίνακες του Χόπερ, με την ίδια κολλώδη μυστηριώδη μοναξιά. Βλέπω τον εαυτό μου σαν μία από αυτές τις φιγούρες που κάθονται σε ξέστρωτο κρεβάτι, με ένα βιβλίο παρατημένο σε μια γυμνή καρέκλα, ή που κοιτούν από το παράθυρο ή κάθονται δίπλα σ' ένα λιτό τραπέζι και παρατηρούν τον άδειο τοίχο.”
― Jo confesso
― Jo confesso
“we try to survive the chaos with art’s order.”
― Confessions
― Confessions
“Killing in the name of God or in the name of the future is the same thing. When the justification is ideological, empathy and compassion vanish. One kills coldly, without one’s conscience being affected. Like the gratuitous crime of a psychopath.”
― Confessions
― Confessions
“These pages are the day-to-day record of something written chaotically, in many tears mixed with a little ink.”
― Confessions
― Confessions
“Ik mis haar, maar ik wens haar toe dat ze iemand heeft gevonden die oprechter is dan ik.”
― Jo confesso
― Jo confesso
“A veces no entiendo por qué la humanidad se relaciona a porrazos habiendo, como hay, tantas cosas por hacer. A veces pienso que somos malvados antes que poetas y por eso no tenemos remedio. El problema es que nadie tiene las manos limpias. Poquísimos, mejor dicho.”
― Jo confesso
― Jo confesso
“More than things, what was important was the excitement we projected into them. That is what makes us people.”
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“Every once in a while, large cities have narrow streets, silent passageways that allow your footsteps to echo in the stillness of the night, and it seems like everything is going back to the way it was, when there were only a few of us and we all knew each other and greeted each other on the street.”
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“com tots els mortals, no sap veure la felicitat que té a la vora perquè s’enlluerna amb la que no té a l’abast.”
― Jo confesso
― Jo confesso
“human reason cannot win out over the irrational powers of the emotional mind.”
― Confessions
― Confessions
“Изкуството е мое спасение, но не може да бъде спасение за човечеството.”
― Jo confesso
― Jo confesso
“Tanco el llibre en silenci, deixo que s'esvaeixin les últimes vivències provocades per les escenes finals, per les paraules dites, per l'atmosfera que m'ha acompanyat durant us dies o tal volta unes setmanes. I em sento neguitós perquè a partir d'aquell instant ja no conviuré amb uns personatges amb els quals he gaudit d'una estranya intimitat perquè eren tan meus com els meus pensaments.”
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“A voltes no ens atrapa una obra, sino l'entusiasme de qui l'analitza.”
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“It’s hard to believe that the most unthinkable tragedies can be born of the most innocent things.”
― Confessions
― Confessions
“And he closed the case. I found it very unfriendly. So young and already mystery made him uncomfortable. There was no way he could be my friend. Ruled out. Kaputt. Then it turned out he also went to Casp, a year ahead of me. And his name was Bernat Plensa i Punsoda. I may have said that already. And he was so uptight, as if they’d bathed him in a vat of hair spray and forgot to rinse him off. And I had to admit, after sixteen minutes, that that unfriendly boy who refused to accept mystery, who would never be my friend, and who was named Bernat Plensa i Punsoda, had something about him that made a violin bought for one hundred and seventy-five pesetas at Casa Parramon sound with a delicacy I had never been able to achieve. And Trullols looked at him with satisfaction and I thought what a piece of shit my violin was. That was when I swore that I would make him shut up forever, him, the violin dedicated to Madame d’Angoulême and the hair spray he’d bathed in; and I think that it would have been much better for everyone if I’d never had that thought. For the moment, all I did was let it gradually ripen. It’s hard to believe that the most unthinkable tragedies can be born of the most innocent things.”
― Confessions
― Confessions
“-Encara llegeix.
-Això s'acaba. Aviat se n'oblidarà. Llegeix i no recorda el paràgraf que ha llegit; i l'ha de rellegir, m'entén? I es queda igual. No: molt fatigat.
-És possible que no pateixi, si no recorda res?
-Això no li ho sabria assegurar del tot. Aparentment, no. I aviat la deterioració s'estendrà a altres funcions vitals.
En Bernat es va aixecar amb els ulls plorosos; es tancava per sempre una etapa. Per sempre. I ell moria una mica amb la mort lenta del seu amic.”
― Jo confesso
-Això s'acaba. Aviat se n'oblidarà. Llegeix i no recorda el paràgraf que ha llegit; i l'ha de rellegir, m'entén? I es queda igual. No: molt fatigat.
-És possible que no pateixi, si no recorda res?
-Això no li ho sabria assegurar del tot. Aparentment, no. I aviat la deterioració s'estendrà a altres funcions vitals.
En Bernat es va aixecar amb els ulls plorosos; es tancava per sempre una etapa. Per sempre. I ell moria una mica amb la mort lenta del seu amic.”
― Jo confesso
“Το να σκοτώνεις στο όνομα του Θεού ή στο όνομα του μέλλοντος είναι το ίδιο. Όταν η αιτία είναι κάποια ιδεολογία, η ενσυναίσθηση και η συμπόνεια εξαφανίζονται. Σκοτώνουμε ψυχρά, δίχως να επηρεάζεται η συνείδηση, σαν το αδικαιολόγητο έγκλημα ενός ψυχοπαθούς.”
― Jo confesso
― Jo confesso
“We are a community that lives on a rock that sails through space, as if we were always searching for God amid the fog.”
― Confessions
― Confessions
“Kłamstwo czy półprawdę, czy kilka kłamstw powiązanych ze sobą w tak spójny sposób, że wydają się prawdopodobne, da się utrzymać przez pewien czas. Nawet przez długi czas. Ale nigdy przez całe życie, bo istnieje niepisane prawo o godzinie prawdy, która kiedyś nieuchronnie nadejdzie.”
― Jo confesso
― Jo confesso
“Με νευριάζει ο θάνατος, αλλά δεν με τρομάζει. Όταν υπάρχουμε εμείς, ο θάνατος απουσιάζει· και όταν είναι παρών ο θάνατος, δεν υπάρχουμε εμείς.”
― Jo confesso
― Jo confesso