"World history is the history of men violently oppressing women, children and artists." -- Sławomir Mrożek, Dziennik. 1962-1969

The guy is a goldmine.

"Być człowiekiem, to w istocie być odpowiedzialnym. To znać wstyd w obliczu nędzy, chociaż ona nie wydaje się od nas zależna. To być dumnym ze zwycięstwa, które odnieśli nasi towarzysze. To kładąc swą cegłę czuć, że się bierze udział w budowie świata."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"To be human is essentialy to be responsible ( Read more... )

If you see me heading towards the kitchen anytime soon, remind me: I am not allowed to "eyeball" ANY recipe EVER. I just cooked the most vile piece of food and I am still reeling from the taste. I will not tell you the recipe, for fear of being arrested as a terrorist instigator. It was that bad ( Read more... )

Which, of course, will go mostly untranslated. But that's why I became a translator: I believe there are much more books worth translating than are actually being translated ( Read more... )

"One of the laws of resistance is that the more we avoid something the greater the resistance becomes. Therefore every time we put something off, the more difficult it becomes to do. It would be nice if resistance then went away for a bit and left us alone - but it does not. It remains present as a cloud of unspecified anxiety ( Read more... )

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Ahh, imageboards...


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"Besides, everyone knows how absolutely gay Jetko and Ty Zula are. The Fire Siblings are gay. It's an obvious fact of life. The sky is blue. Fire is hot. Zuko and Azula are gay. It's just the way the world works" -- jakia on avatar_ship_war

Amen!

God, this is great:


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"Large Hadron Collider... what a stupid name for a stargate." -- Filip