Doris Lessingová citáty

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„Vždycky mě udivuje, jak automaticky hledíme nejprve na to, co nás rozděluje a odlišuje. Nikdy se nedíváme na to, co mají lidé společného.“

„Přílišné zjednodušení a hrůza z flexibility se vyskytují všude.“

„Není pochyb o tom, že fikce lépe vystihuje pravdu.“

„Ať už máš udělat cokoli, udělej to hned. Předpoklady jsou vždy nesplnitelné.“

„Ve starověku nebylo nic divného, když se senátor pohyboval kolem literatury.“

“This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we — we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.”

“Pearls mean tears.”

“I knew, and it was an illumination — one of those things one has always known, but never understood before — that all sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under flesh. If this goes, then the conviction of life goes too. But I could feel none of this. … I knew I was moving into a new dimension, further from sanity than I had ever been.”