Why are there stars when there are no people? O God, why don't you just extinguish them? — Cool my brow, ancient night! Divine and fair as you always… - Karel Čapek
" "Why are there stars when there are no people? O God, why don't you just extinguish them? — Cool my brow, ancient night! Divine and fair as you always were — O night, what purpose do you serve? There are no lovers, no dreams. O nursemaid, dead as a sleep without dreams, you no longer hallow anyone's prayers. O mother of us all, you don't bless a single heart smitten with love. There is no love.
About Karel Čapek
Karel Čapek (January 9, 1890 – December 25, 1938) was a Czech author and playwright, who introduced and made popular the word robot as a word for artificial human beings, which first appeared in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) in 1920.
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"I find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the soil. He is a creature who digs himself into the earth and leaves the sight of what is on it to us gaping good-for-nothings. He lives buried in the ground. He builds his monument in a heap of compost. If he came into the Garden of Eden, he would sniff excitedly and say: "Good Lord, what humus!
A já vám něco povím: To, čemu říkáme náš život, to není všecko, co jsme prožili; je to jen výběr. Toho, co prožíváme, je příliš mnoho, víc než nač stačí náš rozum. Proto si jen vybíráme to a ono, co se nám hodí, a jaksi z toho upleteme takový zjednodušený děj; a tomu výrobku říkáme náš život. Ale co odpadků přitom necháváme, co divných a strašných věcí pomíjíme, kristepane, kdyby to si člověk uvědomil! Ale my můžeme žít jen jeden jednoduchý život. Bylo by nad naši sílu prožít víc. Neměli bychom sílu nést život, kdybychom nepoztráceli cestou většinu života.