Her lie was symptomatic of a certain pride she took in mocking the romantic, in being unsentimental, matter-of-fact, stoic; yet at heart she was the opposite: idealistic, dreamy, giving, and deeply at...
Hamlet,sorunları olduğu için mi o kadar çok düşünüyordu?Yoksa çok fazla düşündüğü için mi sorunları vardı?
At the heart of the pain created by sexual rejection is our habit of interpreting it as a moral judgement, when it might more accurately be categorized as a mere accident. We can start to break free f...
An urgent wish is no guarantor of a sound solution.
We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.
عشق رمانتیک چیزی است که ما را دیوانهوار به جستوجو میکشد تا شریک زندگی خود را پیدا کنیم، همان یک نفر که دیگر نیاز تمامی ارتباطهای اجتماعی را برای ما برآورده میکند و کافی است!!!
The imagination could provide a more-than-adequate substitute for the vulgar reality of actual experience’.
You ask whether the Orient is all I imagined it to be. Yes, it is—and more than that, it extends far beyond the narrow idea I had of it. I have found, clearly delineated, everything that was hazy in m...
When we suspect that we are appropriate targets for hurt, it does not take much for us to believe that someone or something is out to hurt us
Whatever the benefits of prolific and convenient air travel, we may curse it for its smooth subversion of our attempts to use journeys to make lasting changes in our lives.
We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.
Uma pessoa nunca é boa ou ruim per se, o que significa que amá-las ou odiá-las tem necessariamente em sua base um elemento subjetivo e talvez ilusionista.
There is no necessary connection between the concepts of home and of prettiness; what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistently available to us the important truths...
The word power typically signifies a capacity for action. The Oxford English Dictionary tells us power lies in an 'ability to do or effect something or anything, or to act upon a person or thing'. The...
The value of a novel is not limited to its depiction of emotions and people akin to those in our own life; it stretches to an ability to describe these far better than we would have been able, to put...
The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
The offerings of Machiavelli (1469–1527), Guicciardini (1483–1540), La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) and La Bruyère (1645–96) give us an indication of the manoeuvres that workers may, aside from their regul...
The most significant fact of political life, which almost no news organization will dare to acknowledge – because it would at a stroke exclude half of its speculations and disappointments – is that in...
The destination was not really the point. The true desire was to get away—to go, as he concluded, ‘anywhere! anywhere! so long as it is out of the world!