Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him. Which is why murder, to a Jew, is unforgivable.
Jeg kan ikke bli mer enig! Jeg blir så glad hver gang Alberte kommer fram i lyset. Bøkene om Alberte er virkelig tre nydelige bokperler fra Cora Sandel.
hvem som helst kan skape vakre miljøer hvis de har en lommebok på størrelse med en diamantgruve.
'Morality has nothing to do with religion,' she says, 'You can do the right thing and not believe in God at all.'
Can you blame the creationist who doesn't believe in evolution, if he has been fed that alleged truth his whole life, and swallowed it hook, line, and sinker?
Maybe not.
Ty det är med livet som med vår tunga, skrev han. I barndomen älskar vi det söta, men det är det bittra vi måste lära oss att bejaka. Annars blir vi aldrig fullvärdiga människor och våra smaklökar förblir outvecklade.
Gud, ge mig sinnesro att acceptera det jag inte kan förändra
Mod att förändra det jag kan
Och förstånd att inse skillnaden
Det du inte kan sluta fundera på, måste du ta itu med.
It's amazing what you can convince yourself of, if you buy into the lie.
Power isn't doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.
All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.
If you hide long enough, a ghost among men, you might disappear forever without anyone noticing. It's human nature to ensure that someone has seen the mark you left behind.
There is a reason the word history has, at its heart, the narrative of one's life.
Each memory is like a paper flower stowed up a magician's sleeve: invisible one moment and then so substantial and florid the next I cannot imagine how it stayed hidden all this time. And like those paper flowers, once they've been let loose in the world, the memories are impossible to tuck away again.
The biggest mistake people make when they think about Nazi war criminals is to assume they were always monsters; before, during, and after the war. They weren't. They were once ordinary men, with fully operational consciences, who made bad choices and had to fabricate excuses to themselves for the rest of their lives when they returned to a mundane existence.
Og vi menn klarer ikke å gjøre to ting på én gang. Derfor har vi bygd et samfunn som gjør det mulig for oss å gjøre én ting, og la våre kvinnelige partnere ta seg av resten.
Dessuten er det ikke slik at en ønsker seg det man aldri har hatt. Når en er nedfor, foretrekker en det som en alltid har hatt.
Musikk er et mirakel, hevet over alt jordisk grums. Med musikk kan man forandre verden, bygge opp og rive ned, man kan glemme eller huske. Musikken er ren som matematikk, den er allemannseie, vårt første språk ...
Han fikk frysninger på ryggen av sjargongen blant de yngre realister - datamaskinen er vår tids mitraljøse, vi må skyte oss innover i framtida ...