Barometro Que Quotes & Sayings

This child lent a solidity to him and Lil. They were a family now, an unbreakable unit of three. — Kate Morton

I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole. — Elias Canetti

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own. — William Empson

I suppose the more established one gets, you have what's called a reputation, and so you want to protect that and preserve that. And I think the bravery really comes in one's mid career where you then are constantly trying to move beyond that and move past that, because those so-called successors can become shackles. — Cate Blanchett

I have not killed anyone. They will not let me. — Dashiell Hammett

Our culture, self-toxified by the poisonous by-products of technology and egocentric ideology, is the unhappy inheritor of the dominator attitude that alteration of consciousness by the use of plants or substances is somehow wrong, onanistic, and perversely antisocial. I will argue that suppression of shamanic gnosis, with its reliance and insistence on ecstatic dissolution of the ego, has robbed us of life's meaning and made us enemies of the planet, of ourselves, and our grandchildren. We are killing the planet in order to keep intact the wrongheaded assumptions of the ego-dominator cultural style. — Terence McKenna

Stand up for what you know is right. — Ronald Isley

You will never disappear," I said. "Even if it may feel like you have at some point. We're going to remain a part of each other's lives for much longer than we think. There's nothing we can say or do to change that. — Dinaw Mengestu