Papa used to say that wealth is a sin and poverty is a punishment but that God apparently wants there to be no connection between the sin and the punishment. One man sins and another is punished. That...
Fundamentally, suspicion, enjoyment of persecution, and even hatred of the entire human race are all much less lethal than a love of humanity, which reeks of ancient rivers of blood. In my view, gratu...
Faith, coming from the lack of faith: as much as the faith in oneself is demolished, as much the intoxicating faith in the salvation becomes strong and the desperate need to be save grows. The savior...
Facts have a tendency to obscure the truth.
And what if ever on some distant day a memory comes to you of an old familiar whiff or the sound of dogs barking far off or a driving hailstorm at dawn and you suddenly fail to grasp what it is you ha...
And in fact that selfsame strange urge I had when I was small - the desire to grant a second chance to something that could never have one - is still one of the urges that set me going today whenever...
كل هذا كان تشيخوفياً- وكذلك كان الشعور بالنأي \العزلة : هناك في العالم أماكن تتحقق فيها الحياة الحقيقية، بعيداً من هنا، في أوروبا ما قبل هتلر، في كل مساء تضاء مصابيح كثيرة، والسيدات و السادة يلتقون لش...
عندما كنت صغيراً راودني أمل أن أكبر و أن أكون كتاباً لا كاتباً. اذ أن الانسان يمكن أن يُقتل مثل النمل، كذلك الكُتّاب ليس من الصعب قتلهم. أما الكتاب وحتى و ان أبادوه بطريقة منهجية، هناك احتمال لأن تنجو...
Фанатиците по правило са саркастични. Някои от тях имат остро като жило език, но не и чувство за хумор. Хуморът задължително включва способността да се смееш на себе си. Хуморът предполага релативизъм...
Фанатикът е страшно загрижен за теб; при него няма средно положение - той или се хвърля на врата ти, защото те обича искрено, или се спуска да ти пререже гърлото, в случай че се окажеш непоправим.
Обагрена утрин в оранжева радост, угасват желания, страсти, и само лъчът на блаженството свети. Скръб, страх и срам са далече от мен в този ден, толкоз далече, колкото може да бъде един сън от друг. С...
АДАЖИО „Светлината си свети навън от сутрин до вечер, без да съзнава, че е светлина. Високите дървета вдишват тишина, без да е нужно да дирят дълбоката същност на дървесината. Пустите степи се излягат...
The Jews’ religion. Not money, not gold. The diploma. But behind this faith in the diploma there was something else, something more complicated, more secret, and that is that girls in those days, even...
Remember the vertiginous sense of time within time within time, and the whole host of heaven trying on, blending, and hurting the innumerable hues of light just after the sun has set
My life too would become a new song, a life as pure and straightforward and simple as a glass of water on a hot day.
Books that Uncle bought in Odessa or acquired in Heidelberg, books that he discovered in Lausanne or found in Berlin or Warsaw, books he ordered from America and books the like of which exist nowhere...
All the things we think are important really aren’t, and he had no time to think about the things that really are. His whole life was going by and he had never contemplated the big, simple truths: lon...
Zbor din tine în tine
Thomas Mann writes somewhere that hatred is simply love with a minus sign placed before it.
The whole of reality was just a vain attempt to imitate the world of words.