Not only to myself or before the mirror or at the hour of my death, which I hope will be long in coming, but in the presence of my children and my wife and in the face of the peaceful life I’m building, I must acknowledge: (1) That under Stalin I wouldn’t have wasted my youth in the gulag or ended up with a bullet in the back of my head. (2) That in the McCarthy era I wouldn’t have lost my job or had to pump gas at a gas station. (3) That under Hitler, however, I would have been one of those who chose the path of exile, and that under Franco I wouldn’t have composed sonnets to the caudillo or the Holy Virgin like so many lifelong democrats. One thing is as true as the other. My bravery has its limits, certainly, but so does what I’m willing to swallow. Everything that begins as comedy ends as tragicomedy.
Roberto BolañoMots clés morality ethics limits
Oh, I'm not just going too far, I've arrived.
José SaramagoMots clés limits going-too-far
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I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
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Boundaries aren't all bad. That's why there are walls around mental institutions.
Peggy NoonanMots clés boundaries limits
How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of "green"?
Stan BrakhageMots clés words perception creativity names labels limits
words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.
Jodi PicoultMots clés words joy wonder grief limits
We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather lived a life of limits, both suffered and strictly observed, in a world of limits. I learned much of that world from him and others, and then I changed; I entered the world of labor-saving machines and of limitless cheap fossil fuel. It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.
Wendell BerryMots clés limits
The purpose of battle is to attain the greatest heights within your own limits.
Yukito KishiroMots clés limits purpose-of-battle
In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either.
Vera NazarianMots clés freedom growing development grass limits grow unchecked plains develop
When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.
Vera NazarianMots clés goals journey stars universe goal effort deep aim limits reaching-out reach-out reach aim-high far-reaching narrow range trip wide
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