Doris Lessingová citáty

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„Niet pochýb o tom, že fikcia lepšie vystihuje pravdu.“

„Prílišné zjednodušovanie a hrôzu z flexibility nájdeme všade.“

„Nech už máte urobiť čokoľvek, urobte to teraz. Podmienky na to sú vždy nesplniteľné.“

“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.”