Joseph? Conrad (Polish-born English writer): It is unnecessary to attribute evil to supernatural factors, and human beings themselves are enough to carry out every evil deed.
●Try again. Fail again. Fail better.? Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett (the most famous absurd playwright of our time): Try again, fail again and fail better. (lines in Gideon's film)
●Try not. Do or do not. Yoda
Yoda (the protagonist in Star Wars): Don't try. To do or not to do. (lines in Morgan's film)
● All is Riddle, and the key to a Riddle? is another riddle.? Emerson
Emerson (American poet, essayist and philosopher): Everything is a mystery, and the key to a mystery? Is another mystery.
●The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see.? Winston Churchill
Winston? Churchill: The farther you look back, the farther you will look forward.
●When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.? Nietzsche
Nietzsche: When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares at you.
●There are certain clues at a crime scene which, by their very nature, Do not lend them to being collected or examined. How does one collect love, rage, hated, fear Dr. James T. Reese
James? Dr. Reiss (American expert in stress management of traumatic stress): According to their own nature, some clues in the crime scene are not easy to collect and detect. How can one collect love, anger, hatred and fear?
●Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.? Einstein
Einstein: Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, while imagination surrounds the whole world.
●Don? t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.? William Faulkner
Williams? Faulkner (American writer): Don't bother yourself, just want to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors, and try to be better than yourself.
● Almost all absoluteness of conduct arises from the imitation of who we can't assemble. Samuel Johnson
Samuel? Johnson (English writer): Almost all absurd behaviors come from imitating those who we can't be alike.
●Don? t forget that I cannot see myself that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror.? Jacques Rigaut
Jacques Rigaut (French poet): Don't forget that I can't see myself. My role is limited to looking at the person in the mirror.
●Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn? T people feel as free to deliver in what sunshine remains to them rose Kennedy
Rose? Kennedy (President Kennedy's mother): Birds sing after a storm. Why don't people feel happy when the sun is still shining?
●When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.? Euripides
Euripides (Greek tragic poet): When a good man is hurt, all good people will suffer with him.
●When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.? Euripides
Euripides: If you love too much, you will lose all your glory and value.
●The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against it? s existence, rather, a condition of it.? Nietzsche
Nietzsche: The absurdity of a thing cannot be an argument to refute its existence. On the contrary, this is precisely the condition for its existence.
●Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.? Shakespeare
Shakespeare: Nothing is more ordinary than hope. (Hotch)
●With foxes, we must play the fox.? Dr. Thomas fuller
Dr. Thomas fuller: When we meet foxes, we must learn to be cunning.
●When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable,must be the truth.? Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock? Sherlock Holmes (Conan Doyle's famous detective): When you rule out all the impossibilities, whatever remains, even if it is impossible, it must be the truth. (lines in Gideon's play)
● there is no hunting like the hunting of man. and this who has hunted armed men long enough and like it never really care for anything else. Hemingway
Hemingway: There is no hunting like human hunting. Those armed hunters always enjoy it, but they never care about anything else.
●The healthy man does not torture others.Generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.? Carl Jung
jung: healthy people don't torture others, but those who have been tortured often become torturers.
●A belief is not merely an idea that mind possesses.It is an idea that possesses the mind.? Robert Oxton Bolton
Robert Oxton Bolton (writer): Faith is not only an idea dominated by the mind, but also an idea that can dominate the mind.
●A question that sometimes drives me hazy? Am I or the others crazyEinstein
Einstein: Sometimes I wonder, am I crazy or others crazy? (Reid)
●Unfortunately a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.? Sir Peter Ustinov
Peter? Sir Ustinov (cultural celebrity, comedian, veteran British actor, playwright, performing artist, novelist, social activist, opera director): Unfortunately, the price of dreaming more is that nightmares will also increase.
●Ideologies separate us, dreams and anguish bring us together.? Eugene Ionesco
Eugene? Alesco (Romanian playwright of absurd drama): Ideology separates us, but dreams and pain bring us together.
●The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.? Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harry Yezhi? Beecher? Stowe (New England female novelist and anti-slavery writer, whose masterpiece is Uncle Tom's Cabin): The most painful tears flow from the grave, for what has not been said and done.
●Evil is unspectacular and always human.And shares our bed? and eats at our table.? W.h. Auden
W.H. Orton (English poet): Demons are usually just human and unremarkable. They share our bed and eat at our table.
●Measure not the work until the day? s out and the labor done.? Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Elizabeth? Barrett? Browning (a famous English poetess in the 19th century): Don't judge until you do your best.
●What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.? Titus Lucretius Carus
Lucretius (Roman poet and materialist philosopher): My food is your poison.
●Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.? Confucius
Confucius: Before you start your revenge journey, dig two graves. (Free translation, not the original sentence. Beg for the original sentence! )
●Whoso sheddeth man? s blood, by man shall his blood be shed.? Genesis 9:6
Genesis 9 of the Old Testament: Whoever sheds human blood, his blood will be shed by man.
●What we do for ourselves dies with us.What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.? Albert Pine
Albert Pine (British writer): What you do for yourself will disappear with death, and what you do for others and the world will last forever.
●It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us(but we can still love them).? Norman Maclean
Norman? Mccullen (Professor of English Literature at the University of Chicago, whose autobiography has been adapted into the movie "A River Runs Through It"): It is always those people we get along with, love and should know each other who deceive us. Even so, we still love them. )
●In the end, it? s not the years in your life that count.It? s the life in your years.? Abraham Lincoln
Abraham? Lincoln: In the end, it doesn't matter how old you live. What matters is how you spent these years.
●The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhmed by the tribe.? Nietzsc