The only way to fall asleep is to stop trying to fall asleep. Sleep is a horizon: the harder you row toward it, the faster it recedes.
What is death, after all, but a cessation of involvement with the world, a departure from those you love, and those who love you?
There must be some definite cause why, whenever snow begins to fall, its initial formation invariably displays the shape of a six-cornered starlet. For if it happens by chance, why do they not fall ju...
They mean half-Jew. Keep your voice down.
To the bombardiers, the walled city on its granite headland, drawing ever closer, looks like an unholy tooth, something black and dangerous, a final abscess to be lanced away.
Only through the hottest fires can be purification achieved. Only through the harshest test's can the God's chosen rise
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To really touch something, she is learning—the bark of a sycamore tree in the gardens; a pinned stag beetle in the Department of Entomology; the exquisitely polished interior of a scallop shell in Dr....
This is a double cruelty: that everything else keeps living, that the spinning earth does not pause for even an instant in its trip around the sun.
Algumas vezes, eu me apanho encarando o mar e me esqueço de minhas tarefas. Parace grande o suficiente para conter qualquer coisa que as pessoas possam sentir.
De entre todas las cosas que he visto en la vida, creo que el mar es mi favorita.A veces me descubro mirándolo y me olvido completamente de mis obligaciones. Es lo bastante grande como para contener e...
And at the Napola school at Schulpforta, one hundred and nineteen twelve- and thirteen-year-olds wait in a queue behind a truck to be handed thirty-pound antitank land mines, boys who, in almost exact...
Raised dots form letters, the letters words, the words a world.
Every process must by law decay.
He says, You are very brave.She lowers the bucket. What is your name?He tells her. She says, When I lost my sight Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it...
They lie on their stomachs and page through comics, feeling the pleasure of being outside of school, glancing at each other now and then as if curious to learn whether their friendship will continue t...
The vice minister’s wife sits so upright that it seems as if her spine is hewn from oak.
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Her uncle seems almost a child, monastic in the modesty of his needs and wholly independent of any sort of temporal obligations. And yet she can tell he is visited by fears so immense, so multiple, th...
That great shuttles of souls might fly about, faded but audible if you listen closely enough? They flow above the chimneys, ride the sidewalks, slip through your jacket and shirt and breastbone and lu...
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