Eso era el cuerpo: falible, sujeto a achaques. Enfermedad, dolor. ¿Por qué la gente se acaloraba tanto sobre ello?
Es muy ruso quejarse continuamente de lo mal que van las cosas. Si la vida te va bien, cállatelo. No vayas a tentar al diablo...
Death is the mother of Beauty. And what is Beauty? Terror.
But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.
But just when I thought I was going to get away, the creaky machinery of his face began to grind and a cardboard dawn of recognition was lowered, with jerks, from the dusty proscenium.
But if you close the door… the night could last forever…
Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primi...
Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.
And the painting, above his head, was the still point where it all hinged: dreams and signs, past and future, luck and fate.
All those layers of silence upon silence.
A veces tienes que perder para ganar.
A different and much deeper sort of beauty altogether. The thing and yet not the thing.
A character like his disintegrates under analysis. It can only be defined by the anecdote, the chance encounter or the sentence overheard.
Rather in the way that the Roman Empire continued in a certain fashion to run itself even when there was no one left to run it and the reason behind it was entirely gone, much of this routine remained...
. . .—we’d been there [at a restaurant] for hours, laughing over little things but being serious too, very grave, she being both generous and receptive (this was another thing about her; she listened,...
Worrying, Potter! Don’t stand there and look so unhappy! If we lose, we win, and if we win, we win! Everything is good!
We’d have to devise a plan, probably a rather Pyrrhic and unsatisfactory one.
Unbearable claustrophobia of the soul,
Torpor.
Their reality was far more interesting than any idealized version could possibly be