Category: life quotes. Page 2

An honest person does not need to make excuses.

And everything will pass with time, but I don’t believe it.

Sometimes circumstances are above us, but we must fight them, try to overcome them.

I know that in a couple of years all this will seem stupid and meaningless to me. But now I want to climb onto the windowsill, hug my knees with my hands and, staring out the window at the gloomy cold embankment, cry out loud.

Organizing saves time, money, space and energy.

Children are happiness, and your happiness cannot interfere with your life.

The feeling of guilt that you are potentially not an ideal mother is born with the child.

- Ivan Stepanovich, I want to get married, I really want to. If you want to know, I think about this all the time. But it is better to die an old maid than to live with a person who humiliates you.

I pretended to be asleep, but I had never felt more awake.

How can we consider only that which can bring money or prestige worthy of knowledge, and consider love, which only benefits the soul and is useless in the modern sense of the word, a luxury on which we have no right to spend much effort?

This may seem like snobbish boasting, but reading Nabokov pierces me. I can't say it's like me, but that's how I feel. Although I can't explain it. I'm a member of Nabokov. First of all, before the Lolita period. I was once forced to write either 30 or 50 favorite books. “The gift” was in first place for me.

Wine, cinema and dominoes? Wine is very important to me. Cinema, of course, too. Although, to be honest, I always considered myself stupid to watch highly intelligent films. I made several visits, but could not understand what the movie "Mirror" was about. Others have an idea about this film, but I couldn't form my own. Although Tarkovsky’s other film “Andrei Rublev” is one of my favorites.

I slowly began to feel that I was seeing worse. TV series are replacing reading novels. There is a wonderful writer Guzel Yakhina. Her first book is about the exodus of her people. I remember what I read, but now I won’t say what was discussed. Here’s an amazing thing: it’s extremely difficult for me to stay focused. Does not work. I'm reading, but I don't remember what happened five pages ago? It was washed away, I don’t know.

For me, one of the biggest mysteries is: why does a car without a roof cost more? It doesn't have a roof. Well, it's true! Can you give another example where there is a line of items, but without something they cost more?