Do you know what the main thing is—the thing a woman should look for in her man? She should look for a quality that's not at all exciting but that's rarer than gold: decency. And maybe kindness too. T...
And so I learnt the secret of diversity. Life is made up of different avenues. Everything can happen in one of several ways, according to different musical scores and parallel logics. Each of these pa...
My father used to say: If you steal from one book, you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books, you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a dist...
عملياً هذا الدافع الغريب الذي لازمني عندما كنت صغيراً - الرغبة أن أمنح فرصة أخرى لمن لا توجد و لن تكون لهم فرصة ثانية - هو أحد الدوافع التي مازالت تحركني حتى الآن كلما جلست لكتابة قصة
ذلك أننّنى أعتقد اليوم أن كل سفر فى رحلة ما هو إلا حماقة كبيرة : الرحلة الوحيدة التى لا نعود منها دائما صفر اليدين هى الرحلة الداخلية, فى الداخل لا توجد حدود ولا جمارك, يمكن الوصول حتى إلى أبعد النجوم...
След няколко месеца определението „пришълец беше забравено и момичетата започнаха да му викат галено Мошик. В сравнение с нашите грубиянски закачки, неговото държание към момичетата беше изключително...
Много добре знаех откъде произлизам: от кошмарна паяжина от тъга и преструвки, скрити копнежи, комплекси, дребнотемие и провинциална надутост, сантиментално възпитание и анахронични идеали, потисната...
И изведнъж ме прегърна, но не нежно, а страшно силно. В тъмното неволно го ударих с ръка по слепоочието и вместо очилата му пръстите ми напипаха сълзите му. Никога не бях виждал баща ми да плаче. Всъщ...
Una vez fuimos a Tel Aviv a pasar la fiesta de Pésaj y, por la mañana temprano, cuando todos aún dormían, me vestí y me fui a jugar solo a una placita donde había un banco o dos, un columpio, una zona...
Um homem perseguido, quer porque ele próprio fez dos outros perseguidores, quer porque a sua miserável imaginação inventa legiões de inimigos cheios de más intenções, num caso como no outro um homem d...
There are lots of women who are attracted to tyrannical men. Like moths to a flame. And there are some women who do not need a hero or even a stormy lover but a friend. Just remember that when you gro...
The fact is that all the power in the world cannot transform someone who hates you into someone who likes you. It can turn a foe into a slave, but not into a friend. All the power in the world cannot...
So there they were, these over-enthusiastic Europhiles, who could speak so many of Europe's languages and recite its poetry, who believed in its moral superiority, appreciated its ballet and opera, cu...
Precisamos de um senso de justiça, mas precisamos também de senso comum, de imaginação, de uma capacidade profunda de imaginar o outro, às vezes de nos colocarmos na pele do outro. Precisamos da capac...
La vérité est que chacun d'entre nous sait parfaitement ce que signifie la pitié et quel en est le mode d'emploi : nous l'avons tous implorée un jour ou l'autre. Mais au moment où il nous faut ouvrir...
He always imagined that silence was somehow directed against him. Or that it was his fault.
Et si on faisait une trêve ? S'il montait le [le Premier ministre] réconforter et le distraire un peu de sa solitude ? Il pourrait passer la nuit à lui parler, d'homme à homme. Il se garderait de tout...
Een beetje medelijden en een beetje ruimhartigheid, zei ik, ik zei geen liefde: in universele liefde geloof ik niet zo. Liefde van iedereen voor iedereen, dat kunnen we misschien beter overlaten aan J...
And when she played the clarinet it was as though the music came not from the instrument but straight out of her body, only passing through the clarinet to pick up some sweetness and sadness, and taki...
Almost everyone traverses their lifespan, from birth to death, with eyes closed. Even you and I, my dear Shmuel. With eyes closed. If we open our eyes for just a moment, a great and terrible cry will...