She was beautiful, too. That's almost secondary; but still, she was.
Maybe it’s stupid to even articulate such hopes. But, then again, maybe it’s more stupid not to.
La gente muere, eso está claro. Pero la pérdida de ciertos objetos es tan trágica e innecesaria... Por puro descuido. En incendios y en guerras. Como el Partenón, que utilizaron como almacén de pólvor...
Joan Miró: You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life
I’ve come to realize that the only truths that matter to me are the ones I don’t, and can’t, understand. What’s mysterious, ambiguous, inexplicable. What doesn’t fit into a story, what doesn’t have a...
It was six o’clock in the morning, and the sun was rising over the mountains, and the birches, and the impossibly green meadows; and to me, dazed with night and no sleep and three days on the highway,...
III. We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves. —FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
I called, my voice false-sounding and hoarse, slipping the painting into an extra pillowcase and hiding it under the bed before hurrying out of the room.
Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not.
For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless.
Every time I thought of it my stomach squirmed, so that my first instinct was to slam the lid down hard and think of something else.
Ed è una tentazione per qualsiasi persona intelligente, e specialmente per perfezionisti come gli antichi e noi, cercare di uccidere l'io primitivo, emozionale, animale. Ma è un errore.Perché? chiese...
During the next week, everyone noticed that my appetite had improved, even Toddy. Are you done with your hunger strike? he asked me curiously, one morning. Toddy, eat your breakfast. But I thought tha...
But when she was annoyed with me, she had a cold way of saying Apparently in answer to almost anything I said, making me feel stupid. Um, I can’t find the can opener. Apparently. There’s going to be a...
Besides I think it's good to change the place where one sleeps from time to time. I believe it gives one more interesting dreams.
At her tone, at once intimate and formal, a terrible sadness came over me, and when we looked at each other it seemed that the whole past was redefined and brought into focus by this moment, clear as...
Are you always up this early?' I asked him.'Almost always,' he said without looking up. 'It's beautiful here, but morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable.
Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.
And what is beauty? Terror.
And what does a person with such a romantic temperament seek in the study of the classics? He asked this as if, having had the good fortune to catch such a rare bird as myself, he was anxious to extra...