Few in this world are ever simply nasty; those who hurt us are themselves in pain. The appropriate response is hence never cynicism or aggression but, at the rare moments one can imagine it, always lo...
Când ne uităm la cineva (la un înger) din postura unei iubiri neîmpărtăşite şi ne imaginăm plăcerea de a fi în paradis alături de acea persoană, suntem tentaţi să trecem cu vederea un pericol importan...
Children teach us that love is, in its purest form, a kind of service. The word has grown freighted with negative connotations. An individualistic, self-gratifying culture cannot easily equate content...
Cele mai atrăgătoare femei nu sunt cele care ne dau voie să le sărutăm imediat (devenim repede nerecunoscători) și nici cele care nu ne lasă deloc să le sărutăm (le uităm repede), ci cele care ne duc...
Belittling others is no pastime for those convinced of their own standing. There is terror behind haughtiness. It takes a punishing impression of our own inferiority to leave others feeling that they...
Beauty, then, is a fragment of the divine, and the sight of it saddens us by evoking our sense of loss and our yearning for the life denied us.
As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
A momentous but until then overlooked fact was making itself apparent: I had inadvertently brought myself with me to the island. It
A marriage doesn't begin with a proposal, or even an initial meeting. It begins far earlier, when the idea of love is born, and more specifically the dream of a soul mate.
A feeling of beauty is a sign that we have come upon a material articulation of certain of our ideas of a good life.
No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and...
We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness...
I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
کتابفروشیها ارزشمندترین مقصد افراد تنها است. گواه این امر تعداد کتابهایی است که علت نگارش آنها این بوده که نویسندگانشان کسی را برای حرف زدن پیدا نکردهاند.
É um sinal de que duas pessoas tenham parado de amar uma a outra (ou pelo menos parado de desejar fazer o esforço que constitui noventa por cento do amor)quando não são mais capazes de transformar dif...
Doubts only inflame desire. As Rabih has realized, the most attractive people aren’t those who accept him right away (he doubts their judgement) or those who never give him a chance (he grows to resen...
Cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards. Through
Considered earthquakes and decided they were the result of air trapped inside the earth that had sought a way out, a form of geological flatulence:
Yet whatever her enthusiasm for independence, with time Chloe nevertheless began leaving things behind. Not toothbrushes or pairs of shoes, but pieces of herself. It began with language, with Chloe le...
Why? Because no one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initia...