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Paulo spürte auf einmal eine ungeheure innere Ruhe. Ihm war endlich klargeworden, dass wir letztlich allem, was und widerfährt, ohne angst begegnen müssen, weil alles zum Leben gehört. Wir können nicht wählen, was mit uns geschieht, aber wir können wählen, wie wir damit umgehen.
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Herhalde mutluluk dedikleri de bu olsa gerek: Biraz güvenlik, biraz can sıkıntısı.
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Horatius‘un dizesini hatırladım: ‘Ölmek isteyeni kurtarmak, öldürmekle birdir.’
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O zamanlar, hayatımın sonraki yıllarında öğreneceğim bir sözü bilmiyordum. Seneca diyordu ki:
‘Kötülük etmeyi istememek başka, bilmemek başkadır.’
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Benim her türlü aşağılık numaramı, büyük bir doğallık ve açık gönüllülükle karşılıyor ve bana sanki dünyanın en iyi, en saf, en dürüst insanıymışım gibi davranıyordu. Daha sonra, bütün insanlara böyle davrandığını görecektim. Bu onun kültürünün, geleneğinin bir parçasıydı. İnsanların iyi olduğuna inanıyordu. Kimseden kötülük beklemiyordu.
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Çünkü insanları konuşarak tanıyamazsınız. Konuşmak, canlı yaratıklar arasındaki en etkisiz iletişim aracı. Dil yalan söylüyor, olanları çarpıtıyor, insanlığın hiç bıkıp usanmadığı klişeleri tekrarlıyor. Bu yüzden, insanları dinlemek onları anlamak için yeterli değil.
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Çocukluğunda yalnız kalan insanlar genellikle bir sanat başarısıyla kendilerini göstermek isterler.
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Architecture is not produced by the artist himself as, for instance, paintings are. A painter’s sketch is a purely personal document; his brush stoke is as individual as his hand-writing; an imitation of it is a forgery. This is not true of architecture. The architect remains anonymously in the background. Here again he resembles the theatrical producer. His drawings are not an end in themselves, a work of art, but simply a set of instructions, an aid to the craftsmen who construct his buildings. He delivers a number of completely impersonal plan drawings and typewritten specifications. They must be so unequivocal that there will be no doubt about the construction. He composes the music others will play. Furthermore, in order to understand architecture fully, it must be remembered that the people who play it are not sensitive musicians interpreting another’s score- giving it special phrasing, accentuating one thing or another in the work. [..]. Behind them is the architect who organizes the work, and architecture might well be called an art of organization. The building is produced like a motion picture without star performers, a sort of documentary film with ordinary people playing all the parts.
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A campfire on a dark night forms a cave circumscribed by a wall of darkness. Those who are within the circle of light have the secure feeling of being together in the same room.
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At various times and in the most diverse civilizations efforts have been made to create perfectly smooth, firm surfaces. In ancient times the Egyptians and Greeks produced smoothly polished sculpture of unsurpassed beauty. And in distant countries where fine old traditions are kept up you can find even the most utilitarian articles of porcelain, stoneware, wood, or lacquer, as smooth and precise in textural character as the pebbles of the sea. [...]. But when modern civilization comes to these countries gimcrack, trashy things often follow in its wake. You see them in cheap shops under glaring electric lights: gaudy mirrors, vulgar radio cabinets of glossy veneer, fantastic bric-a-brac and all the rest. How bogus and ugly they are compared to the simple, genuine articles in the shop next door!
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There is something mysterious about the stimulating effect of rhythm. You can explain what it is that creates rhythm but you have to experience it yourself to know what it is like. A person listening to music experiences the rhythm as something beyond all reflection, something existing within himself. A man who moves rhythmically starts the motion himself and feels that he controls it. But very shortly the rhythm controls him; he is possessed by it. It carries him along. Rhythmic motion gives a feeling of heightened energy. Often, too, it occupies the performer without any conscious effort on his part so that his mind is free to wander at will- a state very favorable to artistic creation.
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Whether it makes an impression on the observer, and what impression it makes, depends not only on the work of art but to a great extent on the observer’s susceptibility, his mentality, his education, his entire environment. It also depends on the mood he is in at the moment. The same painting can affect uns very differently at different times. Therefore it is always exciting to return to a work of art we have seen before to find out whether we still react to it in the same way.
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The characteristic thing about the culture of japan is the extraordinary mobility of the Japanese in every sense of the word. The white man is always seeking stability. His house must be constructed to endure. He makes himself dependent on all sorts of worldly goods. But in Japan everything is in motion. The land itself is a land of impermanence. Rivers, coastlines, plains, and valleys are constantly changing. The average Japanese is not bound to ay definite spot.
The ability to live without furniture, without impedimenta, with the least possible amount of neat clothing shows more than the advantage held by this Japanese race in the struggle of life; it shows also the real character of some weaknesses in our own civilization it forces reflection upon the useless multiplicity of our daily wants. We must have meat and bread and butter; glass windows and fire; hats, white shirts, and woolen underwear; boots and shoes; trunks, bags, and boxes, bedsteads, mattresses, sheets, and blankets: all of which a Japanese can do without, and is really better off without.
-Lafcadio Hearn
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