Life's weird.

I don't really know anymore. It started as a way of running away from me by expressing my thoughts with words of others but now... Wow, maybe I really haven't changed that much in years...

[mahirayt]

- CHYTIL Václav, Faraón v deset večer (1984)

[mahirayt]

- CHYTIL Václav, Faraón v deset večer (1984)

[mahirayt]

"Everett was strange," Slight concedes. "Kind of different. But him and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That's what was great about them. They tried. Not many do."

Jon Krakauer; Into The Wild

[mahirayt]

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

Jon Krakauer; Into The Wild

[mahirayt]

He was so enthralled by these tales, however, that he seemed to forget they were works of fiction, constructions of the imagination that had more to do with [Jack] London's romantic sensibilities than with the actualities of life in subarctic wilderness. McCandless conveniently overlooked the fact that London himself had spent just a single winter in the North and that he'd died by his own hand on his California estate at the age of forty a fatuous drunk, obese and pathetic,maintaining a sedentary existence that bore scant resemblance to the ideals he espoused in print.

Jon Krakauer; Into The Wild

[mahirayt]

I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A couple of times I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that kind of stuff, but Alex got stuck on things. He always had to know the absolute right answer before he could go on to the next thing.

Jon Krakauer; Into The Wild

[mahirayt]

He was an extremely intense young man and possessed a streak of stubborn idealism that did not mesh readily with modern existence.

Jon Krakauer; Into The Wild

[mahirayt]

Ale każdy sen, zbyt długo śniony, zamienia się w koszmar. A z takowego budzimy się z krzykiem.

Andrzej Sapkowski; Wiedźmin: Pani jeziora

[mahirayt]

Bo ja wiem, czego Zło się lęka. Nie etyki twojej, Vysogoto, nie kazań, nie moralnych traktatów o poczciwym życiu. Zło bólu się lęka, kalectwa, cierpienia, śmierci wreszcie!

Andzej Sapkowski; Wiedźmin: Wieża jaskółki

[mahirayt]

Dwadzieścia lat w służbie poezji, dostatecznie długo, by wiedzieć, że są rzeczy, które albo rozumie się w lot, nawet bez słów, albo nigdy się ich nie zrozumie.

Andrzej Sapkowski; Wiedźmin: Chrzest ognia

[quotemadness]

It eventually gets better, without any sort of explanation; you just wake up one morning and you’re not as upset anymore.

Unknown (via quotemadness)

[mahirayt]

- Moją ogromną przywarą - wyjaśnił - jest niepohamowana dobroć. Ja po prostu muszę czynić dobro. Jestem jednak rozsądnym krasnoludem i wiem, że wszystkim wyświadczyć dobra nie zdołam. Gdybym próbował być dobry dla wszystkich, dla całego świata i wszystkich zamieszkujących go istot, byłaby to kropelka pitnej wody w słonym morzu, innymi słowy: stracony wysiłek. Postanowiłem zatem czynić dobro konkretne, takie które nie idzie na marne. Jestem dobry dla siebie i dla mego bezpośredniego otoczenia.

Andrzej Sapkowski; Wiedźmin: Chrzest ognia

[mahirayt]

- (...) Czego się we mnie wpatrujesz, ledwie się odwrócę? Ptak mi na plecy nasrał?

Andrzej Sapkowski; Wiedźmin: Chrzest ognia 

[mahirayt]

- Ale wy nawet dewastować z głową nie umiecie. (...) Jesteście jak dzieci! Zamiast konsekwentnie jeść pączek wydłubujecie palcem marmoladę ze środka, a resztę wyrzucacie, bo już nie tak smaczna.

Andrzej Sapkowski; Wiedźmin: Chrzest ognia

[daily-prompts]

prompt 965

You can find a lot of scary things in the world if you go out looking for them. Or, you can stay home and let them come to you.

[quotemadness]

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Albert Einstein (via quotemadness)

[gayforlangs]

me waiting for instant and effortless fluency in all my target languages