Quotes About Complexity

You should know that I don't love you and that I love you.

Eu te amo para começar a amar-te, para recomeçar o infinito e para não deixar de amar-te nunca: por isso não te amo ainda. Te amo e não te amo como se tivesse em minhas mãos as chaves da fortuna e um incerto destino desafortunado. Meu amor tem duas vidas para amar-te. Por isso te amo quando não te amo e por isso te amo quando te amo.

Hank stared off at the weeping cement wall of their underground room; under the glare of the bare bulb, it reminded him of sweaty skin. Why didn't he ever think about stuff like that? He always assumed people were as plain and straight as he was. Why did everyone else have these dark folds, these wrinkles and kinks to them?

Polytheism may be more consonant with contemporary life, its mixed populations, and its recognition of psychic complexity and interdependence, than a rigorous Protestant monotheism.

It would take a lifetime to understand another person. We all have complex, nuanced behaviors that make us who we are, or why we are. Acceptance is a better way to go.

He wanted an answer, a simple, uncomplicated set of words wrapped around an idea he could accept. His companion's answer, however, told him there was nothing simple or uncomplicated about his question, no matter how straight-forward it might have seemed to him.

God is simple. Everything else is complex. Do not seek absolute values in the relative world of nature.

God is simple. Everything else is complex. Do not seek absolute values in the relative world of nature." These

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Totusi, destul de iute simplicitatea actului sexual m-a plictisit; in cele mai rele excese percepeam monotonie si patos mult. Oricat de puternica era desfatarea, ea nu era niciodata destul de puternica. Mi-am dat seama atunci ca trupul e limitat, spre deosebire de gand.

I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.

Perfect doesn't just mean happy. Perfect can have lots of different parts. - Niles.

it was but one of the things that made friendship with me an ambivalent enterprise.

You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.

I still believe that they both loved us deeply, but, as with many parents, their love proved to be the most lethal thing about them.

The South's got a lot wrong with it. But it's permanent press and it doesn't wash out.

They were remarkable in so many ways that the gifts they bestowed almost equaled the havoc they so thoughtlessly wreaked.

Leadership in today's world has never been so important and at the same time so difficult.

He could pick my heart like a rose and watch it wither in his hand. Sometimes I think he is like that. At other times I think he is as simple and golden and generous as our father's fields. And then I see things in his eyes - things that I have never looked at, and I know that I have walked a short and easy road out of my past, while he has walked a thousand roads to meet me. I know Perrin's past; the same road runs into his future. I don't know Corbet.

One can be deeply influenced by people to whom one is utterly hostile

I think friendships are the result of certain needs that can be completely hidden from both people, sometimes hidden forever.

People, feelings, everything! Double! Two people in each person. There's also a person exactly the opposite of you, like the unseen part of you, somewhere in the world, and he waits in ambush.

I don't want you to think that I'm so good as you put it. I have a little evil side, too. I just keep it well hidden. - Victor Van Allen

What was it to love someone, what was love exactly, and why did it end or not end? Those were the real questions, and who could answer them.