There are more good people in this world than bad. You may not think so, but it's true. The bad ones make a lot of noise and cause a lot of trouble, so they're the ones we see on the news and portrayed in books and films, but your average human being is a good human being. And that's a fact.

Although it's always important to be careful in life, from whom to trust to what time you walk home on your own, it's also important to remember this. Sure, the guy who saves you from drowning might be planning to shave your hair off and sell it as a wig but, more likely than not, he's simply trying to save your life. If most people were bad, nothing would ever get done. There would be no such thing as society. So be alert, yes. Be sensible, yes. But try not to be afraid. If you're afraid, you're letting the bad guys win.

Philip Ardagh

If the appearance is more important than the soul, then why would the soul rise up to the sky after death and we bury the body in the ground?

Sometimes, I find myself wondering, what’s going on in the life of the person who just walked past me? Did they just fall in love, or out of it? Are they rushing home to their kid, or leaving a place that no longer feels like home? Did they hear good news today? Bad? Did something inside them break quietly this morning, the way things sometimes do, without anyone noticing? It’s strange how we’ll never know. That we’ll pass each other in grocery store aisles, in late-night cafés, in elevator rides too quiet to break—and yet our lives will remain sealed, unknowable. You could sit beside someone for hours and never even scratch the surface of who they are.

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“When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of Hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.”

— Brian Aldiss

My dearest Felice! What’s this? Headaches, fitful sleep, strange dreams, and all this at a time when you are supposed to be resting from your many troubles? It is the continued uncertainty of our situation, that’s all. On receipt of your letter tomorrow I shall write to your father, and then we will both be calm and confident. Indeed, we’ll have to be, you especially, for it is then that your real hardship awaits you: sharing your life with me, a man without self-control, whom you may still not visualize as he really is.

Please give a more detailed description, Felice, of your life at Westerland. I have a general idea, but would like to gorge myself on detail. Whom do you like, and dislike? And how do you spend each part of the day? Do you read? If so, what? And isn’t it quite dangerous to bathe if one cannot swim?

- Franz: August 7, 1913

Or maybe the past feels sacred simply because it's where life has happened — while the future remains the unknown, where death inevitably waits.

(Why people feel nostalgic?)

Bir qiziq narsa o'qigan edim "tasdiqlash paradoksi" degan.

Biror narsa qilishga yoki qaysidir va'dani bajarishga qattiq qasdlashasiz. Masalan, uylanganizda/turmushga chiqqanizda umringizni oxirigacha ajrashmayman degan qat'iyat bo'ladi sizda. Ammo har yilni oxirida sizga kimdir kelib "hali ham o'sha fikringda qolasanmi? Ajrashish niyating yo'qmi?" deb so'rab tursa nima bo'ladi? Bu holatda, hech qaysi javobni bermasangiz avtomatik "yo'q" degan bo'lasiz.

Mantiqan o'ylab qarasangiz hech narsa o'zgarmaydi. Sizda bu "tasdiqlash"ni so'rashdan oldin ham xuddi shu variantlar mavjud edi. Shunchaki "ha" davom etaman, yoki "yo'q" ajrashaman deyish imkoniyati bor edi doim.

Yagona farq shunda-ki, birinchi holatda (tasdiqlashingiz shart bo'lmagan holat) sizni hech narsa qilmasligingiz "ha, turmushim bilan qolaman" degan ma'noni berar edi. Ikkinchisida esa teskarisi.

Aslida odamlar shunchaki "hech narsa qilmaslikni" tanlar ekan. (Tendency to inaction). Shuning uchun ham har yil oxirida "tasdiqlab" turishingiz kerak bo'lsa sizni qat'iyatingiz susayib ketar ekan.

Siz 100 ming so'm pul yutib olsangiz uni foyda deb hisoblaysiz, chunki yo'q joydan keldi.

Siz 100 ming yutib olishingiz mumkin bo'lgan holatda yuta olmasangiz zarar deb hisoblashingiz kerakmi?

Butun dunyoda haqiqiy boylikni ko'rsatishning birinchi raqamli belgisi shaxsiy samolyotda uchish ekan

You wrote in pencil anyway, so couldn’t you have written a few lines at breakfast or on the beach? Moreover, I saw various signs suggesting that you read my letters very carelessly. One example: I wrote about my uncle in Madrid; you removed him to Milan. That was of little consequence, but you might just as well have removed one of my most serious scruples to some other quarter, without putting it into words, and without my noticing.

I am mailing the book today; if they bore you, it shows you are not doing them properly; try hard to do them exactly as prescribed (progressing, needless to say, with great caution!), and their immediately noticeable e ffects will prevent you from being bored; you needn’t worry about your cooking; while she is asleep, place a towel carefully over your cousin’s face when she talks in her sleep.

August 14, Franz

Bu gaplarni tarjima qila olmayman (balki qila olarman, harakat qilib ko'rmadim). Lekin e'tibor bilan o'qib ko'rish kerak bo'lgan gaplar

Nimaga odamlar inflyatsiyani yomon ko'radi degan savolga bitta yaxshi nazariya o'qib qoldim.

Ko'pchilik odamlar narxlar o'sishini inflyatsiya hisobiga va oyliklari oshishini o'zining mehnati evaziga deb hisoblashar ekan. Aslida oylik oshishiga inflyatsiya ta'siri ham bo'ladi

Qobiliyatdan foydalanishni maksimal yo'llaridan biri bo'lsa kerak

If you are involved, even the things you think unnecessary are necessary