duminică, 14 noiembrie 2010

Hoţii de frumuseţe - Pascal Bruckner

"Frumuseţea este oare o crimă? Trebuie să pedepsim fiinţele superbe pentru că ne expun la spectacolul perfecţiunii lor? Undeva, la graniţa dintre Franţa şi Elveţia, trei oameni pun la cale un complot împotriva frumuseţii. Să fie la mijloc doar izbucnirea halucinatorie a unei perversiunii sadice? Nici vorbă. Avem de-a face cu o doctrină şi aplicarea ei obstinantă: complotiştii văd în frumuseţea inegal distribuită o inechitate ce trebuie eliminată. Ei capturează fete superbe, a căror prezenţă are asupra semenilor lor un efect aproape hipnotic, le închid într-o grotă din inima muntelui ţi le supun unui lung tratament de teroare pur psihică. Complet izolate fizic, văduvite de percepţia scurgerii timpului, dar, mai ales, private de privirile celorlalţi, ale se transformă, după nici doi ani, în nişte bătrânele cu trupuri deformate şi minţi rătăcite.

O viziune de apocalips? Mai degrabă un basm filosofic şi totodată scânteietor thriller ce dozează perfect suspansul, erotismul, teroarea. Pascal Bruckner ştie să planteze violenţa anomaliei şi cruzimea detaliului pervers într-un discurs impecabil, înzestrat cu splendoare stilistică şi rigoare logică."

Nu a fost nevoie să citesc mai mult şi am ştiu că aceasta va fi cartea pe care o vreau neapărat. Şi a mea a fost. Şi a fost dragoste la prima citire. Şi citesc, citesc, citesc şi între timp mai scriu câte ceva.


“Zarurile au fost aruncate şi din acel moment am devenit prizonierul ei.” În animalica bătălie dintre sexe, autorul aruncă femeia pe post de prădător şi pe bărbat pe post de pradă, încălcând astfel regula cum că femeia este subjugată bărbatului. Asemenea unei opera de artă, Bruckner decorează femeia (personajul Helen) cu un simţ al puterii foarte puţin tolerat de alţii, îi acordă totală libertate în gesture şi acţiuni.

“Benjamin, vrei să mă dezbraci te rog?

Să vă dezbrac? De ce?

Am chef să stau goală în faţa dumitale.”

Simţul umorului şi gravitatea unui discurs mereu bine pus la punct se împletesc spectaculos în caracterul acestui personaj. Înzestrată cu o nonşalanţă impresionantă, adusă la viaţa, această femeie ar safisface şi cele mai rafinate gusturi masculine. “Ştiinţa ei de a trăi în societate se rezuma la această maximă: să aleagă partea cea mai bună din fiecare lucru, să transforme cea mai măruntă clipă într-un prilej de bucurie.” – acest cliseu abracadabrant vine ca o completare a operei de artă desăvârşită în Helen.

Pe de altă parte, o regăsim pe Mathilde, cea de-a doua naratoare a carţii (primul fiind Benjamin, cel care povesteşte prin ce a trecut). Aceasta, în comparaţie cu Helen, se lasă subjugată de puterea masculină, este aproape incapabilă să ducă singură povara unei meserii nedorite şi a unui bărbat care o înşală – “Putea să facă din mine tot ce voia.” Înclin chiar să afirm că Helen este varianta feminină a lui Benjamin.


Este genul de carte care te face să nu o mai laşi din mâini până nu-i devorezi fiecare literă. Întâi începi să citeşti din curiozitate, continui din plăcere şi apoi pe la jumătatea cărţii, când deja citeai doar ca să o termini mai repede, începe adevărata acţiune, care te face prizonierul unor foi de hârtie decorate cu cea mai mare dăruire de o poveste incredibilă, ce se dezbracă de secrete şi de adânceşte în mister chiar în faţa ochilor tăi. În minte ţi de derulează imagini al unui posibil thriller si dorinţa arzătoare de a afla deznodământul te macină şi te obligă să nu laşi cartea jos. Citind mai departe, îţi vine în minte povestea contesei Elizabeth Báthory: “Ei bine, prizonierele din pivniţele noastre se evaporă şi ele, la fel ca un parfum, veştejindu-se exală o aromă. Această aromă, noi o canalizăm printr-o conduct care o transport până la nişte ventile din care Francesca, Raymond şi cu mine respirăm tinereţea care se duce. Aceste inhalaţii ne revigorează la rândul nostrum.”

Ceea ce este iarăşi fascinant la această carte este modul în care sunt “racolate” tinerele fete pentru a fi închise. Modul de a prezenta cu lux de amănunte fiecare pas te face să te întrebi dacă şi ţie ţi se poate întâmpla asta, te propulsează într-o atmosferă ostilă, dar în acelaşi timp incitantă. Mai că îţi imaginezi un Sherlock Holmes îngropat în hârtii, analizând viaţa viitoarei deţinute, ca mai apoi să o urmărească aşa cum tigrul îşi urmăreşte prada: într-o linişte de mormânt.

Singurul lucru vag în această carte este însăşi tema ei – frumuseţea. Autorul omite să o definească, lăsând astfel loc de interpretări. Cum poţi afirma că cineva e frumos sau urât, dacă nu prin prisma gusturilor tale? Frumuseţea este deci un lucru subiectiv, prin urmare tind să apreciez că acesta este punctul slab al cărţii (sunt deschisă însă la alte păreri care, poate, mă vor face să-mi schimb punctual de vedere).

Sfârşitul e însă lipsit de dinamicitate, realizându-se astfel un mare contrast între acţiune şi deznodământ. După o asemenea desfăşurare de forţe te aştepţi la un final spectaculos, măreţ. Nu este însă aşa. Totul redevine subjugat cotidianului, banalului, lucrurile reintrând pe făgaşul lor natural.

Toate acestea fiind spuse, recomand sincer această carte. Este foarte interesantă şi se citeşte dintr-o îmbucătură ;).


“Activitatea noastră se bizuie pe un principiu simpul: privarea de priviri. Ştii ce le urâţeşte pe captivele noastre? Faptul că nu se uită nimeni la ele. Or, frumuseţea nu există decât admirată, ea este pe de-a-ntregul ostentaţie. Încetează să-ţi pironeşti ochii la ea, şi ea dispare”.

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Intrebari?...

...intrebari?...



...ce e aia speranta?ce e ala un dubiu?ce e aia corectitudine?ce e ala orgoliu?ce e aia aparenta?ce e aia incredere?ce e prostia?cat de mult poti iubi pe cineva?cat de mult poti uri pe cineva?cat de apropiate sunt ura si dragostea?e adevarat ca prima dragoste nu se uita niciodata?de ce timpul nu se mai intoarce?de ce viata se joaca cu mintile noastre? de ce nu ne putem juca noi cu ea? putem face asta?de ce un zambet acunde prea multe?de ce un zambet vindeca multe rani?...


...nota:cat de multe poate sterge timpul?...

Me duele amarte


Am vrut să-ţi şterg urma

Din sufletul meu.

Am frecat puternic

Cu un burete de sârmă;

Şi-am frecat, şi-am frecat, şi-am frecat.

Degeaba.

A curs sânge

Şi-atât de mult

Încât ţi-am scris numele

Pe gresie şi faianţă

Până mi-au amorţit degetele.

Au curs lacrimi.

Şi-au curs şi curs

Până s-a inundat încăperea

Şi numele tău scris cu sânge

S-a şters.

Dar tu,

Tu tot acolo ai rămas.

Nu vrei să pleci, aşa-i?



I hate you.


joi, 1 iulie 2010

One Three Hill - Quotes



Shakespeare - There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. But omitted, and the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and miseries. On such a full sea are we now a float. And we must take the current when it serves. Or lose the ventures before us.


Want my world? You’ve got it.



Destiny has a way of finding you.


Start taking notes, punk.


There’s no shame in being afraid. Hell, we’re all afraid. What you’ve got to do is figure out what you’re afraid of. Because when you put a face on it, you can beat it. Or better yet, you can use it. Think about it.


It’s hard to fight the things that we’re afraid of. Sometimes we just need a little help.


Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. Don’t choke. It is possible. It is yours. Your art matters.


But happiness doesn’t come cheap. Hell, if it did, we’d all be smiling.


E.E. Cummings once wrote: "To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day to make you everybody, else means to fight the hardest battle, which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting."


I miss hanging out with you


I’d rather you face your problems head on.


John Steinbeck once wrote : “It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world."


What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gages and dials and registers. And we can read only a few. And those perhaps not accurately.


You ever have a tough decision to make, and you wonder if you made the right choice?


We just got carried away. It didn’t mean anything.


Look, the other day, you asked me if you’ve made a difference. Well, you have. At least with me.


Best friends can forgive each other anything.


I just want to tell him that I love him.


Hey buddy. I missed you.


When things are really special it makes it that much harder to let go.


What you did doesn’t change who you are. Doesn’t make you a good guy.


Everybody makes decisions they regret. But we learn to live with it. It’s part of life.


You don’t like the person you’ve become? Then do something about it, cause no one’s going to do it for you.


Listen, do you hear that?

Hear what?

Silence. It’s nice.


If we leave this place today, we may never come back.


Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically to those who hardly think about us in return.


Have you ever seen the sky so blue?


It feels good to be free.


I know I can’t change our past but I’m hoping I can change our future.


Katherine Anne Porter once said: “There seems to be a kind of order in the universe in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing of the seasons. But human life is almost pure chaos.”



Oliver Wendell Holmes once said: “Many people die with their music still in them. Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it… time runs out."


Maybe it’s okay to lie, if you’re doing it to protect somebody.


You think you know me but you don’t; and that means you don’t know what I can do.


I may not always know what I’m doing…but I’ll try make things better.



People always leave.



I know what it’s like to have the person you love walk away.


Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past, let us accept our own responsibility for the future.


Charles Bukowski once wrote: “There will always be something to ruin our lives. It all depends on what or which finds us first. You're always ripe and ready to be taken.”

Joseph Conrad once wrote: “Who knows what true happiness is, not the conventional word, but the naked terror. To the lonely themselves, that wears a mask, the most miserable outcast, hugs some memory, or some illusion.”


Stephen King once wrote: “Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometime we lose them there again. “


Every choice you make shapes your future.


You’re gonna end up so bitter you’ll just destroy all the people around you.


And Hansel said to Gretel : Let us drop these breadcrumbs... so that together we find our way home. Because losing our way would be the most cruel of things.

This year...I lost my way. And losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey...is a fate more cruel. And once you lose yourself, you have two choices: Find the person you used to be... or lose that person completely. Because, sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you’ve been. And remember the person you were meant to be. The person you wanted to be. The person you are.


It’s all about living your life and doing the best you can.


I realise now that when your heart breaks, you gotta fight like hell to make sure you’re still alive. ‘Cause you are and that pain you feel...it’s life. The confusion and fear... that’s there to remind you that somewhere out there is something better. And that something is worth fighting for.


Will you stay with me?


Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character and reveals it by hiding.


I became part of something, and it's something I care about.


You know, if you want to change something, you have to be willing to work hard at it.


Well, sometimes when you're done working hard, you have to work a little harder.


Do whatever makes you happy. But do it now. Live life for the moment because everything else is uncertain. Take advantage of what's right in front of you.


Robert Louis Stevenson wrote: "You cannot run away from a weakness. You must fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now and where you stand?"


Ida Scott Taylor once wrote: "Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone, and do not be troubled about the future, for it has yet to come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering."


I never understood people who had the chance to go and chose not to.


Every song ends. Is that any reason not to enjoy the music?


Regret makes you old, and bitterness poisons the people around you.


Most of our life is a series of images. They pass us by like towns on the highway. But sometimes a moment stuns us as it happens and we know that this instant is more than a fleeting image. We know that this moment --every part of it --will live on forever.


It's never too late to try and fix things.


Have I told you lately you're my best friend?


I've come to the conclusion that, if having things turn out the way you wanted them to is a measure of a successful life...then some would say I'm a failure. The important thing is not to be bitter over life's disappointments. Learn to let go of the past.And recognize that every day won't be sunny. And when you find yourself lost in the darkness of despair...remember that it's only in the black of night that you can see the stars, and those stars will lead you back home. So don't be afraid to make mistakes, to stumble and fall, because most of the time,the greatest rewards come from doing the things that scare you the most. Maybe you'll get everything you wish for. Maybe you'll get more than you ever could have imagined. Who knows where life will take you? The road is long, and in the end,the journey is the destination.


But it's amazing how things can change in the blink of an eye.


There are moments in our lives when we find ourselves at a crossroads. The choices we make in those moments can define the rest of our days. Of course,when faced with the unknown,most of us prefer toturn around and go back.


Or I'm the reason people always leave?


Regret comes in all shapes and sizes.Some are small...like when we do a bad thing for a good reason.Some are bigger...like when we let down a friend. Some of us escape the pangs of regret by making the right choice. Some of us have little time for regret because we're looking forward to the future. Sometimes we have to fight to come to terms with the past. And sometimes we bury our regret by promising to change our ways. But our biggest regrets are not for the things we did...but for the things we didn't do.Things we didn't say...that could have saved someone we care about...


Sometimes, in order to move forward, you have to go back.


Out of sight, out of mind.


Sometimes people can surprise you.


If you could go back and change just one thing about your life,would you? And if you did...would that change make your life better? Or would that change ultimately break your heart? Or break the heart of another? Would you choose an entirely different path? Or would you change just one thing?Just one moment? One moment that you always wanted back?


Truth is still absolute.Believe that --even when that truth is hard and cold and more painful than you've ever imagined.And even when truth... is more cruel than any lie.


When somebody says you can't do something, you fight back. You prove them wrong.


People love a guy who rises from the ashes.


High school's safe,And i'm not sure i'm ready for the real world.


Sometimes,it feels like it was yesterday. And sometimes,it feels like someone else's memory.


No pain, no gain.

albert camus once wrote "Blessed are the hearts that can bend.They shall never be broken."


The world is full of magic.ou just have to believe in it


Choosing the right path is never easy.It's a decision we make with only our hearts to guide us.But sometimes we find our way to something better.


Sometimes we fight through the regret and remorse of our mistakes Our malice and our jealousyAnd the shame we feel for not being the people we were meant to be. And that's when we find our way

to something better...or when something better finds its way to us.


Love finds you, son. You don't find love.


Whenever you're having a bad day, someone else out there is having a worse day. So just stop and focus

on all the good things.



Stand up for what you believe in.The truth matters,so tell it,no matter what.


Life's too short to play games.


Someone once said that death is not the greatest loss in life.The greatest loss is what dies inside of us while we live.


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