Under the present conditions, everything conspires to obscure the basic movement that tends to restore wealth to its function, to gift-giving, to squandering without reciprocation.
Georges Bataille
Related The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL You can never sanctify to God that with which you long to satisfy yourself. OSWALD CHAMBERS All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD Judge not lest ye be judged. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society. ABHIJIT NASKAR The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward. ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da... VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you. KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l... 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AYN RAND To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another. IRVIN D. YALOM How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL - Mrzim sve što je odricanje! - Ni ja, Ivane, ne pristajem da se odričem. Ja hoću ceo, sav, ... DOBRICA ĆOSIć In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been wi... DOUGLAS ADAMS There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terr... DOUGLAS ADAMS To make one mistake, and then fix it. It shows, a sign that you have understood the lesson. DEYTH BANGER She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She s... ELIZABETH WINDER Boring people live boring lives. HABEEB AKANDE Can I buy you a drink when you get off?" "I don't drink. Alcohol is bad for my legs." 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AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Finance people should remember Albert Einstein’s wise words: “Not everything that counts can be ... BJARTE BOGSNES Albert Einstein once said that ‘insanity’ was ‘Doing the same thing over and over again, expec... JOSS SHELDON If I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist. ENRICO FERMI Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and ... DARRYL ANKA The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe. ALBERT EINSTEIN Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ANONYMOUS Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign. THéOPHILE GAUTIER The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits. ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.Not my fault. ERNEST HEMINGWAY Wherever I am, you belong. You're mine. 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action which does not proceed f... GEORGES BERNANOS Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem ... GEORGES BERNANOS Art is made to disturb, science reassures. GEORGES BRAQUE Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. GEORGES SIMENON The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, th... GEORGES CUVIER I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words. GEORGES SIMENON Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress... GEORGES RODENBACH War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. GEORGES CLEMENCEAU War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. GEORGES CLEMENCEAU It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all. GEORGES COURTELINE A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed f... GEORGES BERNANOS There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function. GEORGES CLEMENCEAU America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degener... GEORGES CLEMENCEAU When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he is not a man of action. Action is a lac... GEORGES CLEMENCEAU Everything I know I learned after I was thirty. GEORGES CLEMENCEAU Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? ... GEORGES BERNANOS It is far easier to make war than to make peace. GEORGES CLEMENCEAU Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our ... GEORGES ROUAULT Painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. GEORGES ROUAULT Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. GEORGES CLEMENCEAU War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men. GEORGES CLEMENCEAU We slowed it down to our tempo, played our game. We just lost it in the overtime. SEAN GEORGES I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible. GEORGES SIMENON Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, ... GEORGES CUVIER Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? ... GEORGES BERNANOS And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your ... GEORGES BERNANOS The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means GEORGES BERNANOS Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible in... GEORGES DUHAMEL By voluntarily participating in these programs, and by setting ambitious targets which are more aggr... GEORGES AUGUSTE The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless... GEORGES ROUAULT He imitated me so well that I couldn't stand myself any longer. GEORGES POMPIDOU Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. GEORGES BRAQUE Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was s... GEORGES CUVIER Few peek through these differing angles and many opt for the accustomed, the habitual,
it is mostly ... GEORGES BERTRAND A Christian people doesn't mean a lot of goody-goodies. The Church has plenty of stamina, and isn't ... GEORGES BERNANOS It was the serene cheerfulness of a man who has no nightmares, who feels at peace with himself and e... GEORGES SIMENON The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. GEORGES BERNANOS It is one of the most mysterious penalties of men that they should be forced to confide the most pre... GEORGES BERNANOS It's the first time there will be Asian Excellence Awards handed out for performances on TV, movies ... BILL GEORGES I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, a... GEORGES BIDAULT Oh to be seventy again. GEORGES CLEMENCEAU The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously. GEORGES POMPIDOU The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions. GEORGES BERNANOS Hope is a risk that must be run GEORGES BERNANOS To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself. GEORGES BRAQUE There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. GEORGES BRAQUE Truth exists; only lies are invented. GEORGES BRAQUE Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. GEORGES BRAQUE Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas. GEORGES BRAQUE Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry GEORGES BRAQUE Our offense is going to be much slower than we predicted. SEAN GEORGES I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men. GEORGES SIMENON The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. GEORGES BIDAULT If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved Algeria. GEORGES BIDAULT To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical. GEORGES CANGUILHEM The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't... GEORGES SIMENON Is not piety itself passion, but passion ennobled, sanctified? The whole of the Catholic liturgy, wi... GEORGES RODENBACH He mostly preached in the evening, when the college church was already shrouded in shadow. And... GEORGES RODENBACH Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refus... GEORGES BIZET Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ... GEORGES BIZET It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved the... GEORGES CUVIER Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind. GEORGES ROUAULT Attack is only one half of the art of boxing. GEORGES CARPENTIER sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. GEORGES DUHAMEL Parfois, tu rêves que le sommeil est une morte lente qui te gagne, une anestésie douce et terrible... GEORGES PEREC A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action
which does not proceed f... GEORGES BERNANOS Faith is not a thing which one ''loses',' we merely cease to shape our lives by it. GEORGES BERNANOS It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around... GEORGES SIMENON It was a rough one. SEAN GEORGES Forse sapevano, un po' meglio degli altri, decifrare, o magari suscitare, questi segni favorevoli. L... GEORGES PEREC I think the overall response was deplorable in terms of the timing and there's plenty of blame go ar... GEORGES BENJAMIN This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to nam... GEORGES PEREC Uzunca bir süre kendine sığınaklar kurup yıktın: düzen ya da eylemsizlik, başıboş sürükl... GEORGES PEREC Kayıtsızlık dili geçersiz kılıyor,işaretleri anlaşılmaz hale getiriyor.Sabırlısın ama be... GEORGES PEREC Estás solo, y al estar solo, no has de mirar nunca la hora, no has de contar nunca los minutos. No ... GEORGES PEREC Tu n'as rien appris, sinon que la solitude n'apprend rien, que l'indifférence n'apprend rien: c'ét... GEORGES PEREC Tu as tout à apprendre, tout ce qui ne s'apprend pas: la solitude, l'indifférence, la patience, le... GEORGES PEREC Non. Tu n'es plus le maître anonyme du monde, celui sur qui l'histoire n'avait pas de prise, celui ... GEORGES PEREC A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of a... GEORGES CLEMENCEAU