On expensive dressmakers who made her luxurious dresses. But she was too mean to wear them: she saved them up at the back of her closet, and most of the time she wore an old mouse-colored housecoat.
When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy...
Maybe they feared that a knowledge of languages would expose me too to the blandishments of Europe, that wonderful, murderous continent.
Closing your eyes to the cruelty of life is, in my opinion, both stupid and sinful. There's very little we can do about it. So we have to at least acknowledge it.
Love is a curious mixture of opposites, a blend of extreme selfishness and total devotion. A paradox! Besides which, love, everybody is always talking about love, love, but love isn't something you ch...
… just to break the silence. He always imagined that silence was somehow directed against him. Or that it was his fault.
They taught us always to respect other peoples: every man is made in the image of God, even if he has a tendency to forget it.
Once you have lifted your foot, do not be in a hurry to put it down again: who can tell what menacing nest of vipers you might step on.
Justice without compassion isn't justice; it's an abattoir.
The day life appeared on Earth, death appeared with it.
I now believe that all journeys are ridiculous: the only journey from which you don't always come back empty-handed is the journey inside yourself.
Why should they love us?Why do you think the Arabs are not entitled to resist strangers who come here suddenly as if from another planet, and take away their land and their soil, fields, villages and...
There is no freedom about this: the world gives, and you just take what you're given, with no opportunity to choose.
Много често дори и най-чувствителните арабски писатели не успяват да ни видят такива, каквито сме всъщност - шепа полуистерични бегълци и оцелели, преследвани от ужасни кошмари, травматизирани не само...
The important things were sensitivity to impressions, intuitive judgment, character assessment, and also patient bargaining skills. It had never so much as occurred to him to jump over walls or leap f...
I believe that if one person is watching a huge calamity, let’s say a conflagration, a fire, there are always three principle options. 1. Run away, as far away and as fast as you can and let those who...
He reflects that Chekhov has already mapped out the route by which one can approach a strange lady by paying court to her lapdog.
القارىء السيىء يأتي و يطالبني بأن أقشّر من أجله الكتاب الذي كتبته. يجيء إليّ كي يطالبني بأن ألقي أنا بيديّ، من أجله، الى برميل النفايات عنبي و أن أقدم إليه النوى...عودة الى مجموعة المونولوج القديم، ال...
Se refieren al versículo «he encontrado que la mujer es más amarga que la muerte»26
Всеки от нас е полуостров, наполовина свързан със сушата, наполовина обърнат към океана. Едната ни половина е свързана здраво със семейството, приятелите, културата, местната традиция, нацията, пола,...
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