Titluri clasice de purtat pe umăr
Cum recunoşti un şoarece de bibliotecă? După sacoşa de pânză plină de cărţi, purtată pe umăr cu stoicism de la librărie până acasă, unde prada din celuloză va fi expusă pe rafturi şi apoi citită pe-ndelete.
Cititorii Cărtureşti care corespund descrierii de mai sus au un motiv de bucurie în perioada următoare: din 15 februarie, la minimum două cărţi din colecţia Penguin Modern Classics cumpărate, primiţi cadou o sacoşă din pânză imprimată cu un citat dintr-un titlu al colecţiei.* Un accesoriu crucial în garderoba oricărui cititor serios, sacoşele Penguin Modern Classics pot fi folosite la transportat cărţile preferate sau pot fi dăruite prietenilor cititori.
Penguin Modern Classics a pornit la drum în 1961 când un editor neconformist de la Penguin – Tony Godwin – a decis că autorii vremii produceau cărţi demne de acelaşi statut cu titlurile clasice semnate de Dickens sau Homer. Aşa au ajuns în colecţie autori precum Emil Cioran, Franz Kafka, George Orwell, Jean-Paul Sartre sau Truman Capote. Îi găsiţi pe toţi în librăriile Cărtureşi şi online, pe www.carturesti.ro.
Concurs!
UPDATE >> Felicitări, Grecu Hanelore, ai câştigat premiul în urma tragerii la sorţi! Mulţumim tuturor pentru răspunsurile inspirate! Toate meritau premiate. Până la următorul concurs, lecturi plăcute & sacoşe pline de cărţi!
Ce citat ţi-ai imprima pe sacoşa pentru cărţi? Dacă ai nevoie de inspiraţie, răsfoieşte titlurile incluse în promoţie. Nu uita să ne laşi răspunsul într-un comentariu pe blog până pe 27 februarie, şi poţi câştiga o sacoşă imprimată cu prima frază din 1984, de George Orwell, precum şi cartea asortată. Câştigătorul va fi tras la sorţi pe 28 februarie.
*Promoţia este valabilă în limita stocului disponibil atât în Librăriile Cărtureşti, cât şi pe librarie.carturesti.ro.
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“I would traverse not once more, but often the hell of my inner being.”
(Hermann Hesse, “The Steppenwolf”)
“Like everyone else I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.” My Autobiography
Charlie Chaplin
“Nu-nţelegi că merită să trăieşti pentru ca să vezi cum cad frunzele şi apoi cum cresc mugurii, pentru o zi în care e soare, pentru alta în care plouă?…”
Pânza de păianjen, de Cella Serghi.(De ce nu, un citat din literatura română<3)
“We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, \"Never Let Me Go\"
“Nu spuneti nimanui nimic niciodata. Daca o faceti o sa inceapa sa va fie dor de toti.”
J.D. Salinger – De veghe in lanul de secara
“I suspect there will never be a requiem for a dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn it\’s passing.” – Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream
“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
F.Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Yet, was a stationary condition absolutely indispensable for existence?
(Kobo Abe: The Woman in the Dunes)
“Find what you love and let it kill you.” C. Bukowski
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;Leave my loneliness unbroken!- quit the bust above my door!
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted – nevermore!”E.A.Poe
‘eu râd când e rău pentru că ştiu că o să fie bine şi nu râd deloc când e bine pentru că ştiu că o să fie rău.’ – Marin Preda în Cel mai iubit dintre pământeni
“the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
“who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism”
― Allen Ginsberg, Collected Poems, 1947-1980
“We’re actors — we’re the opposite of people!” -Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
“Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.”
― André Breton, Nadja
Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
Charles Bukowski
„And all I loved, I loved alone.” Edgar Allan Poe
“Life doesn’t stop for anybody.” – Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Iar timpul e fara mila… Cine spunea ca vindeca toate? Nu! Ucide toate…”
(Cezar Petrescu – “Intunecare”)
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – Charles Dickens, The Tale of Two Cities
“To love at all is to be vulnerable” C.S. Lewis
“The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.”
William Golding, Lord of the Flies
Nu există forţă pe lume în stare să reducă la tăcere o gloată înainte ca ea să fi scuipat tot ce a îngrămădit în vintrele ei, amuţind apoi de bunăvoie.
Bulgakov, Maestrul si margareta
“A girl doesn’t read this sort of thing without her lipstick.” (Breakfast at Tiffany’s)
Cei care găsesc înţelesuri urâte în lucrurile frumoase sunt corupţi fără să fie încântători.- Oscar Wilde
“Love may really be more a capacity for love in oneself than anything very lovable in the other person.” (John Fowles, The Magus)
“Time passed. But time flows in many streams. Like a river, an inner stream of time will flow rapidly at some places and sluggishly at others, or perhaps even stand hopelessly stagnant. Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness
“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa
“You can only see things clearly with your heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“What makes the desert beautiful,’ said the little prince, ‘is that somewhere it hides a well…”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Words are the source of misunderstandings
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Cartea e un univers secret creat de un om înzestrat cu geniu”
Voltaire
L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the Cat, or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“Viata nu tine decat durata fiorurilor noastre. In afara de ele, ea-i pulbere vitala”
Emil Cioran-Indreptar patimas
“Trebuie totuşi să rabd vreo două-trei omizi, dacă vreau să aflu cum arată fluturii.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – Micul Prinţ
“Find what you love and let it kill you” Bukowski
“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“Inca din prima mea tinerete, consideram ca fiecare om pe lumea asta isi are al sau no man’s land, unde isi este propriul lui stapin. Exista o viata ce se vede si o alta, necunoscuta celorlalti, ce ne apartine intru totul. Asta nu inseamna ca una este morala si cealalta nu, sau ca una este permisa si cealalta interzisa. Ci doar ca fiecare om, din cind in cind, scapa oricarui control, traieste in deplina libertate si in mister, singur sau cu altcineva, o ora pe zi, sau o seara pe saptamina, sau o zi pe luna.”
– Nina Berberova, “Trestia revoltata”
From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew: that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.
Ian McEwan, Atonement
“We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.”
Memoirs of a Gheisha,Arthur Golden
“A iubi inseamna a suferi si cum multi fug de suferinta putini stiu sa iubeasca!” – E. Cioran
“Să visăm aşadar la evanescenţă şi să gustăm frumuseţea ascunsă în nimicnicia lucrurilor.” Okakura Kakuzo – Cartea ceaiului
In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
(Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen )
‘Cine vrea sa explice totul prin cuvinte,ajunge curand sa nu poata explica nimic!Sufletul nu are nevoie de cuvinte pentru a intelege” (“Adam si Eva” Liviu Rebreanu)
O să te plouă pe aripi, spuneai,
plouă cu globuri pe glob şi prin vreme.
Nu-i nimic, îţi spuneam, Lorelei,
mie-mi plouă zborul, cu pene. (Nichita Stanescu: Ploaie în luna lui Marte)
“După un timp,s-a furişat pe poarta inimilor noastre fiinţa unui vals făcut numai din farmec şi nostalgie.”
-Mihail Drumeş,Invitaţia la vals
“We’ll come home and eat here and we’ll have a lovely meal and drink Beaune. And afterwards we’ll read and then go to bed and make love.” A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
“E ciudat cum durerea cea mai cumplita lasa pe chipul omului doar semnele unui banal guturai.”( Cezar Petrescu “Duminica orbului”)
Citeste si fi bun! Nu te costa nimic!
„I fly the way we ought to,
i.e., on my own.” – In praise of dreams, Wisława Szymborska
„I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.” – Oscar Wilde, De profundis
“Cultura nu este decat ansamblul povestilor pe care ni le spunem despre noi insine”
Cliford Geertz
“Even if we tell them everything, that’s not a betrayal. The betrayal would only be if they made me stop loving you” (“Nineteen Eighty-Four” – George Orwell,Penguin Books, 2003)
“There is nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
— Elbert Hubbard
“Baobabii, inainte de a creste mari, sunt si ei mici.” – Antoine de Saint Exupery- Micul print
”Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” (Oscar Wilde, ”The picture of Dorian Grey”)
” the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!” [On the Road, J. Kerouac]
“Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun that suddenly is missing or remains fixed or changes its shape.”
― Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. (Chuck Palahniuk)
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.The chances, the changes are all yours to make.The mold of your life is in your hands to break.
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
“We accept the love we think we deserve”
“Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.”
Immanuel Kant
“Toti oamenii mari au fost mai intai copii (Dar putini dintre ei isi mai aduc aminte.)” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
“I walk: I prefer walking.” Jane Austen -Persuasion
„Incurable, hare-brained, romantic chaser of rainbows.” The Offshore Pirate – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“My brother doesn’t play games, he’s an aesthete”
“we could go along together and boogie on down”
“I’m going to be Boswell to your Johnson. Your amanuensis”
toate din “The Rotter’s Club” a lui Johnatan Coe
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis
\"I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.\" William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys
„If music be the food of love, play on…” William Shakespeare
“Sa lupti,sa cauti,sa gasesti si sa nu cedezi “. Alfred Tennyson.
…si scris musai in limba romana!
“Life isn’t about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.”
(George Bernard Shaw)
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Maya Angelou – Forget, Made, Did
“The eyes of others, our prisons; their thoughts, our cages.”, de Virginia Woolf
“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
–P. J. O’Rourke
\"i tell you, we are here on earth to fart around, and don\’t let anybody tell you different.\"
-Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Mark Twain
or
I\’m an idealist. I don\’t know where I\’m going, but I\’m on my way.
Carl Sandburg
“But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness. ” Requiem for a Dream
Spune-mi ce faci din ceea ce mananci, ca sa-ti spun cine esti. Nikos Kazantzakis – Zorba Grecul
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still. Another thing they taught was that nobody was ridiculous or bad or disgusting.” Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse Five
Destroy and forget. But we still have an hour before tea.
Nabokov, Ada sau Ardoarea
“Paper has more patience than people.” Jurnalul Annei Frank – Anne Frank
“What came first-the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person? People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands– literally thousands– of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.” ― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity.
„Părerile sunt libere, dar nu obligatorii.” (I.L.Caragiale)
Nebunia este genialitatea manuirii cuvintelor!
\"Cine ţi-a spus că nu există pe lume iubire adevărată, devotată, eternă? Să i se taie mincinosului scârnava-i limbă.\"
Mihail Bulgakov – \"Maestrul si Margareta\"
“But today he only saw one of the river’s secrets, one that gripped his soul. He saw that the water continually flowed and flowed and yet it was always there; it was always the same and yet every moment it was new.” Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
“All right, guv’nor. This’ere is about the ‘ole story.”
Dracula, Bram Stoker
“Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be” Shakespeare,Hamlet
At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie.
The Alchemist
“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
— Franz Kafka
I’m quite content with my situation, Lizzy. Charlotte Collins, in Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
O cameră fără cărţi e un trup fără suflet. (Cicero)
Eu nu strivesc corola de minuni a lumii
şi nu ucid
cu mintea tainele, ce le-ntâlnesc
în calea mea
în flori, în ochi, pe buze ori morminte.
Lucian Blaga, Eu nu strivesc corola de minuni a lumii
What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin’? Well you’re not! You’re not! You’re no crazier than the average asshole out walkin’ around on the streets and that’s it. –
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
“A good book has no ending.”
–R.D. Cumming
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one/ Kazuo Ishiguro, \”Never Let Me Go\”
“Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.”
― Georges Bataille, The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge
“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”
— Victor Hugo
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.
“A black storm breaking out of season!That was what love was like, he thought, love which came too late”
Malcom Lawry, Under the Volcano
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus
“The greatest thing a father can do for his daughter is to love her mother.” -Elaine S.Dalton
“Without Struggle There Is No Success”
― Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave.
“Singurii oameni care există pentru mine sînt cei nebuni, nebuni după viaţă, nebuni să vorbească, dorind nebuneşte să fie mîntuiţi, cei lacomi să aibă totul deodată, cei care nu se plictisesc niciodată şi nu spun banalităţi, ci doar ard, ard, ard ca nişte formidabile focuri de artificii, explodează aidoma unor păianjeni de foc printre stele.”
Jack Kerouac, “Pe drum”
Am învăţat că atunci când sunt supărat am dreptul să fiu supărat, dar nu am dreptul să fiu şi rău.
Octavian Paler
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.” Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice”.
“He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
“Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
“If there were no risk of a punishment, a getaway would lose the pleasure.”
― Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
“Draga Dumnezeu, Iti multumesc ca ai venit. […] Mi-am dat imediat seama ca venisesi. Si ca-mi dezvaluiai secretul, marele tau secret: priveste lumea in fiecare zi ca si cum ai vedea-o pentru intaia oara!” (Oscar si Tanti Roz, Eric Emmanuel Schmitt)
“Nu sunt pierdute decât acele bătălii pe care nu le începi niciodată.” -Mircea Eliade
”Whisky-ul am descoperit limpezește bine gândurile. Și micșorează durerea. Și mai are o virtute: te îmbată sau dacă bei suficient, te îmbată criță”
J. Barnes-Sentimentul unui sfarsit
“From being in love to hypnosis is evidently only a short step.(…)The hypnotic relation is the devotion of someone in love to an unlimited degree but with sexual satisfaction excluded;(…)”
Sigmund Freud, The Psychology of Love
“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
“One flew over the cuckoo’s nest”, Ken Kesey
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Howard Thurman
“It’s so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved” Vincent Van Gogh
Irving Stone – Lust for Life
“Când te simţi lovit, apăsat de viaţă, trebuie mai ales atunci să-ţi îndrepţi ochii spre zona solară a speciei: să asculţi muzică, să reciteşti o poezie, să te uiţi la un tablou. Dintr-o dată, simţi cum, de la nivelul râmei, fiinţa ta se ridică pe verticala piscului.”
(Ileana Vulpescu, “Arta conversatiei”)
(Ileana Vulpescu, \"Arta conversatiei\")
I knew that I had come face to face with someone whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Fii schimbarea pe care vrei să o vezi în lume” Gandhi
“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.” (Terry Pratchett)
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” (Abraham Lincoln)
”Generally speaking, what is it that makes wrecks of the lives of men? Always warmth, and nothing else.” – Theodor Fontane – ”Effi Briest”
“All that can be done is for each of us to invent our own ideal library of our classics; and I would say that one half of it would consist of books we have read and that have meant something for us and the other half of books which we intend to read and which we suppose might mean something to us. We should also leave a section of empty spaces for surprises and chance discoveries.” Italo Calvino, Why Read the Classics?
“We read to know that we are not alone.” (C.S. Lewis)
„Poate că realitatea să fie mai uşor de suportat decât imaginaţia.” – Marin Preda, Cel mai iubit dintre pământeni
“Arta este un minunat mod de a-ti declara iubirea fata de oameni, fara a-i inoportuna” – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (din Torturati-l pe artist de Joey Goebel)
“A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.”
George Orwell