Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.
Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?
I must give up seeing people, I told myself.
English is a curiously expressive language. Womb, room, tomb. It sums up living in three words.
Birisi sana vurursa, sen de ona vurursun, değil mi? Siz gaddar serseriler de devlete çok sert vuruyorsunuz, öyleyse devlet niye aynı şekilde karşılık vermesin. Ama yeni bakış açısı buna hayır diyor. Y...
You're a romantic, said Crabbe. You expect too much. Reality's always dull, you know, but when we see that it's all there is, well-it miraculously ceases to be dull.
What’s on them, I wonder. What would be up there on things like that?’ I nudged him hard, saying: ‘Come, gloopy bastard as thou art. Think thou not on them. There’ll be life like down here most likely...
What's all this about sin, eh?''That,' I said, very sick. 'Using Ludwig van like that. He did no harm to anyone. Beethoven just wrote music.' And then I was really sick and they had to bring a bowl th...
We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.
Then I noticed, in all my pain and sickness,what music it was that like crackled and boomed on thesound-track, and it was Ludwig van, the last movement of theFifth Symphony, and I creeched like bezoom...
The modern State, whether in a totalitarian or a democratic country, has far too much power, and we are probably right to fear it.
The essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.
It's funny how the colours of the like real world only seem real real when you viddy them on a screen
If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.
I see you have books under your arm, brother. It is indeed a rare pleasure these days to come across somebody that still reads, brother.
Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.
Evet evet evet, işte buydu. Gençlik bitmeliydi, ah evet. Ama gençlik, hayvanmış gibi olmaktır zaten sadece. Hayır, sadece hayvanmış gibi olmak değil de hani şu sokaklarda satıldığını dikizlediğimiz mi...
And what, brothers, I had to escape into sleep from then was the horrible and wrong feeling that it was better to get the hit than give it. If that veck had stayed I might even have like presented the...
It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.
What destroys the dream? What destroys it, eh?..........Disappointment. Disappointment. Disappointment.