Quotes About Complexity

after all the years of waiting, the interested world could at least see the magnificent complexity of the undertaking, the detail, the filigree work, the sheer intricacies of exactitude that the editors were bent on compiling.

It is so tiring to hate someone you love.

I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.

At the present time there still exist many doctrines which choose to leave in the shadow certain troubling aspects of a too complex situation. But their attempt to lie to us is in vain. Cowardice does not pay. Those reasonable metaphysics, those consoling ethics with which they would like to entice us only accentuate the disorder from which we suffer.

Ils tenaient beaucoup à respecter les nuances de leurs rapports. Une amitié est un délicat édifice; elle s'accommode de certains partages mais elle réclame aussi des monopoles. Chacune des combinaisons que nous formions - à deux, à trois, à quatre - avait sa physionomie et ses agréments: il convenait de ne pas sacrifier cette diversité.

In real life, and usually in good novels and films, individuals are not defined only by their sexuality. Each has a history, and his or her eroticism is involved in a certain situation. It may even be that situation creates it.

Mystère pour l'homme, la femme est regardée comme mystère en soi.

Perché le parole, questa precisione brutale che maltratta le nostre complicazioni?

C'est si fatigant de détester quelqu'un qu'on aime.

Money, mechanization, algebra. The three monsters of contemporary civilization.

Who knows, Watson? Woman's heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male. Murder might be condoned or explained, and yet some smaller offense might rankle. -Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Illustrious Client

Cu cât un fapt este mai forÈ›at È™i mai grotesc, cu atât el merit? mai mult s? fie examinat cu toat? atenÈ›ia, È™i tocmai lucrul care pare s? complice problema, dac? este cercetat aÈ™a cum se cuvine È™i cânt?rit în mod È™tiinÈ›ific, poate fi cel mai în m?sur? s? o dezlege.

You can never know enough about your characters.

What is love? No one knows what love is, exactly. No one can define it. No one can prove it.

Life's too short for minimalism.

If love is easy, you're not doing it right.

If love is easy, then you're not doing it right. Tilda

There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness

Ungeheuer ist vieles, doch nichts ist ungeheurer als der Mensch.

One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker's passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.

Having a very complicated life, or a lot of problems, or a lot of flaws, is always great to play.

Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners.

Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle.

Nothing is uncontroversial anymore, and very little is innocent.