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...
Може би най-лошият аспект от глобализацията е повсеместната инфантилизация на човечеството – светът се превърна в „глобална детска градина , пълна с играчки, джунджурии, бонбони и близалки.
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
Only until the children are born. Your life is your own only for a short time:
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...
To be honest, I was sometimes even jealous of those starving children in India, because nobody ever told them to finish up everything on their plate.
The very word ‘disappears’ implies that the universe is, so to speak, finite, and that it is possible to leave it. But no-o-othing (he deliberately drew the word out) can ever leave the universe. And...
The real tragedy of humankind,’ Shealtiel used to say, ‘is not that the persecuted and enslaved crave to be liberated and to hold their heads high. No. The worst thing is that the enslaved secretly dr...
She exuded abundant joie de vivre. Her joy was unconfined and unrestrained, it had no rhyme or reason, no grounds or motive, nothing had to happen to make her overflow with jollity. Of course, I somet...
Power has the power to prevent our annihilation for the time being. On condition that we always remember, at every moment, that in a situation like ours power can only prevent. It can’t settle anythin...
Personally I do not believe in world reform. No. I do not believe in any kind of world reform. Not because I consider that the world is perfect as it is—certainly not, the world is crooked and grim an...
Often the psyche is the worst enemy of the body: it doesn’t let the body live, it doesn’t let it enjoy itself when it wants to or get the rest it is begging for. If only we could extract it the way we...
No man is an island, said John Donne, but I humbly dare to add: No man or woman is an island, but every one of us is a peninsula, half attached to the mainland, half facing the ocean – one half connec...
Many a wise man lacks for sense, Many a fool has a heart of gold, Happiness often ends in tears, But what’s inside can never be told.
Kad sam bio dijete, nadao sam se da ću kad odrastem postati knjiga. Ne književnik, nego knjiga. Ljude se može pobiti kao mrave, pa ni književnike nije teško ubiti. Ali za knjigu, čak i ako je sustavno...
Jednom sam ga sreo pred alatnicom. Pitao sam ga što to čita. Slegao je ramenima i neodlučno mi odgovorio: Knjigu. Zašto pitaš?Pitao sam ga kakvu knjigu čita.O jeziku.Što konkretno?Gramatiku za svakoga...
Il faut regarder la souffrance en face. S'il était Premier ministre, il obligerait les membres du gouvernement à passer une semaine dans une base de réservistes de Gaza ou d'Hébron, ou dans une maison...
I have written various words, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, and bits of dismantled sentences, fragments of expressions and descriptions and all kinds of tentative combinations. Every now and again I...