Everything, every speck of dust, every drop of water continue to exist eternally, albeit in different forms, except for my soul?
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...
To pick a modern image we once heard, but can't remember where: life is like driving a car with its front window opaque. All you have to go by are your rearview mirrors.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
But there's also an upside-down sort of happiness, a black happiness, that comes from doing evil to others.
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...
Η εγκληματικότητα και η αυτοθυσία είναι οι δύο πλευρές του ίδιου νομισματος. Η καταδυνάστευση όπως ο αλτρουισμός, η βιαιότητα όπως η αυτοθυσία, η καταπίεση του πλησίον όπως η καταπίεση του εαυτού μας,...
In a short story by Chekhov or a novel by Balzac he found mysteries which, so far as he was aware, did not exist in any spy thriller. 35
A man who has the ability to generate a new word and to inject it into the bloodstream of the language seems to me only a little lower than the Creator of light and darkness. If you write a book, you...