{"author":"Cristiane Serruya","author_id":"Cristiane+Serruya","total_quotes":21,"quotes":[{"text":"We humans are such complicated and confused beings that we call the animals beasts.","author":"Cristiane Serruya","tags":["animals","confused","emotions","humans"],"id":26216,"author_id":"Cristiane+Serruya"},{"text":"There is no real light but just small sparks of happiness we should photograph to contain. But if we stop to photograph, we can’t enjoy them, the flash overexposes them and they disappear.","author":"Cristiane Serruya","tags":["attitude","enjoyment","happiness","inspirational","life","quickness"],"id":48046,"author_id":"Cristiane+Serruya"},{"text":"Sometimes the guilty one is not the person who has committed the crime, but the person who has created the possibility for it to be committed.","author":"Cristiane Serruya","tags":["commit","crime","criminal","guilt"],"id":57853,"author_id":"Cristiane+Serruya"},{"text":"It was all about money. Dirty, bloody money. It can come and go so easily. They don't see that life is what's important. Love, friendship, trust, respect, a daily routine, someone to grow old with, siblings to cherish, family, a home; things people don't give a damn about until they lose them, things money can't bring back.","author":"Cristiane Serruya","tags":["family","importance","love","money","trust"],"id":77135,"author_id":"Cristiane+Serruya"},{"text":"Apparently rational justifications will never explain all sorts of the different feelings and raw emotions art invoke in people.","author":"Cristiane Serruya","tags":["art","emotions","people","reason"],"id":79378,"author_id":"Cristiane+Serruya"},{"text":"One can say that Javert is our conscience. The ever lurking presence of the law and our own condemnation. The tension between who we were and who we are and who we can be. Javert represents that inescapable, shameful past that forever haunts and persues one's conscience. Javert is the man of the law, and... There are no surprises with the law. The principle of retribution is simple and monotonous, like Euclidean logic. It's closed to all alternatives and shut up against divine or human intervention... Indeed, Javert represents the merciless application of the law, the blind Justice that in the end is befuddled by hope and the possibility of redemption without punishment.","author":"Cristiane Serruya","tags":["javert","law","les-misérables","retribution"],"id":106148,"author_id":"Cristiane+Serruya"},{"text":"Don't cry. She wouldn't like it. When I missed my father, I used to cry. Mama taught me when I cry, he is sad and will cry, too. I don't want my daddy sad. I'm sure you don't want your daughter sad, too.","author":"Cristiane Serruya","tags":["child-logic","loss","sadness","sweet"],"id":106760,"author_id":"Cristiane+Serruya"},{"text":"War comes home— invades it, literally— and every day is another combat. Only, there’s nothing available, nothing real to fight. And you never know when the next attack will come, only from whom it will come.","author":"Cristiane Serruya","tags":["combat","war"],"id":132194,"author_id":"Cristiane+Serruya"},{"text":"This is the Modern Man. The man who seeks himself without ever seeking, because he does not want to find;The man who does not hesitate to criticize the other, although he behaves in the same way;.","author":"Cristiane Serruya","tags":["contemporary-society","lack-of-understanding","modernity-is-sickness","philosophy"],"id":180018,"author_id":"Cristiane+Serruya"},{"text":"We had everything: love, attention, the best money could buy, but we were taught that we had to first give to then receive.","author":"Cristiane Serruya","tags":["attention","everything","giving","love","money"],"id":253903,"author_id":"Cristiane+Serruya"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}