For now my skin was my sole capital in the world and today I'd make my first investment.
Consider the nature of a city. It is a vast repository of time, the discarded times of all the men and women who have lived, worked, dreamed and died in the streets which grow like a willfully organic...
By the end of the affair, she had acquired so much miserable information about men and women she almost decided to give up relationships for good.
But one story in this book, 'How a Husband Weaned His Wife from Fairy Tales', shows just how much fairy stories could change a woman's desires, and how much a man might fear that change, would go to a...
But needs must when the devil drives.
At this time, the cusp of the modern age, the hinge of the nineteenth century, had a plebiscite been taken amongst all the inhabitants of the world, by far the great number of them, occupied as they w...
And the light, I must apologise for the lack of light... a hereditary affliction of the eyes…
Although so young, he is also rational. He has chosen the most rational mode of transport in the world for his trip round the Carpathians. To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against supers...
Child, if such folks awe you, then picture them on the lavatory, straining, constipated. They will at once seem small, pathetic, manageable." And she whispered to me a great, universal truth: "THE BOW...
Любовта е неспирно пътешествие, което не преминава през пространството, безкрайно треперливо движение, което остава неподвижно. Любовта сама си създава напрежение, което възпира всеки напредък на врем...
Step between the gateposts of the forest with the greatest trepidation and infinite precautions, for if you stray from the path for one instant, the wolves will eat you. They are grey as famine, they...
We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents' lives, our bank balances, our sexual...
Vengeful as nature herself, she loves her children only in order to devour them better and if she herself rips her own veils of self-deceit, Mother perceives in herself untold abysses of cruelty as su...
They were dirty and common. She hated to use the word common, only common people called other people common; her mother taught her that.
There were scarcely any of those little, what you might call personal touches to his personality, as if his habit of suspending belief extended even unto his own being. I say he had a propensity for '...
There had never been such roses as those that bloomed that summer. They clambered everywhere and dripped as if perspiring the heaviest most intoxicating perfume, which seemed to make the very masonry...
The real value of a sexually attractive woman in a world which regards good looks as a commodity depends on the degree to which she puts her looks to work for her.
The habit of sardonic contemplation is the hardest habit of all to break.
The excremental enthusiasm of the libertines transforms the ordure in which they roll to a bed of roses.
The dead know something we don’t, although they keep it to themselves.