A second technician gauges Werner’s eye color against a chromatic scale on which sixty or so shades of blue are displayed. Werner’s color is himmelblau, sky blue. To assess his hair color, the man sni...
A scientist’s work is determined by two things: his interests and those of his time.
Воздух – библиотека и патефонная пластинка всякой прожитой жизни, всякой прозвучавшей фразы, и в нем по-прежнему отдаются все когда-либо сказанные слова.
Push back the hood of grief...
Book not so much full of birds as full of evanescence,
Learning happens on backless benches, at wooden tables grooved by the boredom of countless boys before them -- squires, monks, conscripts, cadets.
In her memory, Marie-Laure hears the two policemen: People have been arrested for less. And Madame Manec: Don’t you want to be alive before you die?
Ele a fez o brilhante centro da vida dele; ele a fez sentir como se cada passo que ela dava fosse importante.
Each time he returned, he looked slightly different, not merely older, but changed: a new accent, the cigarettes, three sharp knocks on the door. It was as if the city was entering his body and remaki...
Dreaming of his future, he no longer heard all the things she did not say.
Do we choose who we love?
And then I feel the Big Sadness coming on, like there’s a shiny and sharp axe blade buried inside my chest. The only way I can stay alive is to remain absolutely motionless so instead of whispering De...
And doesn't a writer do the same thing? Isn't she knitting together scraps of dreams? She hunts down the most vivid details and links them in sequences that will let a reader see, smell, and hear a wo...
She imagines his head as a cabinet filled with ten thousand little drawers.
Here comes the light, nameless and intangible, streaming 93 million unobstructed miles through the implacable black vacuum to break itself against a wall, a cornice, a column. It drenches, it crenella...