Quotes About Complexity

The psychological and physiological mechanism of love is so complex that at a certain period in his life a young man must concentrate all his energy on coming to grips with it, and in this way he misses the actual content of the love: the woman he loves. (In this he is much like a young violinist who cannot concentrate on the emotional content of a piece until the technique required to play it comes automatically.)

But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33)

She knew, of course that she was being supremely unfair, that Franz was the best man she ever had- he was intelligent, he understood her paintings, he was handsome and good-but the more she thought about it, the more she longed to ravish his intelligence, defile his kindheartedness, and violate his powerless strength

The novel's spirit is the spirit of complexity. . . . The novel's spirit is the spirity of continuity . . . a thing made to last, to connect the past with the future.

Lucie had been many things to me: a child, a source of comfort, a balm, an escape from myself; she was literaly everything for me but a woman.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

Every novel says to the reader: "Things are not as simple as you think." That is the novel's eternal truth, but it grows steadily harder to hear amid the din of easy, quick answers that come faster than the question and block it off. In the spirit of our time, it's either Anna or Karenin who is right, and the ancient wisdom of Cervantes, telling us about the difficulty of knowing and the elusiveness of truth, seems cumbersome and useless.

The different arts reach our brains in different ways; they lodge there with differing ease, at different speeds, with different degrees of inevitable simplifications; and for different durations

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The novel's spirit is the spirit of complexity. . . . the novel's spirit is the spirit of continuity. . . . a thing made to last, to connect the past with the future.

Erotizam je komercijalno dvosmislen, jer premda svi priželjkuju erotski život, svi ga tako?er mrze kao uzrok svojih nesre?a, frustracija, zavisti, kompleksa, patnji.

Cuando las pruebas se hicieron demasiado evidentes, procuró demostrar que su poligamia no era en absoluto contradictoria con su amor por ella.

What is unique about the 'I' hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine is what makes everyone like everyone else, what people have in common. The individual 'I' is what differs from the common stock, that is, what cannot be guessed at or calculated, what must be unveiled, uncovered, conquered.

La maquinaria psicológica y fisiológica del amor es tan compleja que en determinada época de su vida, un joven debe concentrar toda su energía casi exclusivamente en aprender a manejarla.

He was not obsessed with women; he was obsessed with what in each of them is unimaginable, obsessed, in other words, with the one-millionth part that makes a woman dissimilar to other of her sex.

Teresa y Sabina representaban los dos polos de su vida, dos polos lejanos, irreconciliables, y sin embargo ambos hermosos.

Die deutsche Sprache ist die Sprache der schweren Wörter

El carácter único del YO se esconde precisamente en lo que hay de inimaginable en el hombre. Sólo somos capaces de imaginarnos lo que es igual en todas las personas, lo general. El YO individual es aquello que se diferencia de lo general, o sea lo que no puede ser adivinado y calculado de antemano, lo que en el otro es necesario descubrir, develar, conquistar.

Op het toneel: de dialoog moet de toeschouwer een zo begrijpelijk en helder mogelijk idee verschaffen van het dramatisch conflict van de personages; in werkelijkheid: de persoanges die met elkaar praten, kennen elkaar en weten waarover ze het hebben; daardoor is hun dialoog voor een derde nooit helemaal begrijpelijk; hij blijft raadeslachtig, als het dunne oppervlak van het gezegde boven de onmetelijkheid vna het ongezegde.

No está obsesionado por las mujeres, está obsesionado por lo que hay en cada una de ellas de inimaginable, en otras palabras, está obsesionado por esa millonésima diferencial que distingue a una mujer de las demás mujeres.

If you understood everything I said, you'd be me

The minute you celebrate narcissism, which on one hand is very complex, it's very ridiculous. You have to love oneself with humor.

All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles.

I just love shows that don't hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that's something really important that HBO has done to change the landscape of TV.