A vida - para além do mais que possa ser - é curta. (...) o destino é cruel e talvez não aleatório. (...) a morte ganha sempre, mas isso não quer dizer que tenhamos de lhe baixar a cabeça e a bajular.
It's crazy, she'd said, but I'd be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest of my life. I can't think of a better way to go insane.)
Це життя — з усіма його вадами й перевагами — дуже коротке. Доля жорстока, але, можливо, не випадкова. Природа (у значенні Смерть) завжди перемагає, але це не означає, що ми повинні кланятися їй і кол...
Но больше всего я радовался, что в этом непривычном для меня разговорчиво-говорливом состоянии я сдержался и не сболтнул то, что сидело у меня на самом кончике языка, то, чего я никогда не говорил, хо...
Наверное, когда удается спасти хоть что-то от хода истории, это уже само по себе чудо.Вокруг меня, мимо меня – дом жил своей жизнью.мне было наплевать, что это там за музыка. Я слушал её только из-за...
И как бы ни хотел я верить в то, за иллюзиями кроется истина, я в конце концов понял, что за иллюзиями никакой истины нет. Потому что между реальностью с одной стороны и точкой, в которой реальность и...
¡Idolatría! Amar tanto a los objetos puede acabar destruyéndote. Lo que ocurre es que si cuidas algo lo suficiente cobra vida propia. ¿Y no es ese el propósito de los objetos, de las cosas hermosas, p...
With real greatness, there’s a jolt at the end of the wire. It doesn’t matter how often you grab hold of the line, or how many people have grabbed hold of it before you. It’s the same line. Fallen fro...
What mattered most, as I came to realize, was who’d lived in Vegas the longest, which was why the knock-down Mexican beauties and itinerant construction heirs sat alone at lunch while the bland, middl...
Swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the bus, melting with sorrow and loveliness, a starry ache that lifted me up above the windswept city like a kite: my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky...
Sure how that was going to work, but once I got Boris out of the house I could figure something out. Please, come on. Is State Care that bad in America? said Boris doubtfully.
Strange to find that the present contained such a bright shard of the living past, damaged and eroded but not destroyed.
Steep taper, seven day timetable, plenty of loperamide; magnesium supplements and free form amino acids to replenish my burnt-out neurotransmitters; protein powder, electrolyte powder, melatonin (and...
Simple obviously being in her mind a key word in dealing with overwhelmed and cranky grooms. Really really simple and neutral. It seemed to be registry protocol that the groom should be allowed to sel...
It seemed that the whole past was redefined and brought into focus by this moment,
It felt like the waking-up moment between dream and daylight where everything merged and mingled just as it was about to change, all in the same, fluid, euphoric slide:
Isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty? Those first images that crack your heart wide open and you spend the rest of your life chasing, or trying...
In whatever wink of consciousness that remained to me I felt I understood the secret grandeur of dying, all the knowledge held back from all humankind until the very end: no pain, no fear, magnificent...
If bad can sometimes come from good actions—? where does it ever say, anywhere, that only bad can come from bad actions? Maybe sometimes—the wrong way is the right way? You can take the wrong path and...
How can I see so clearly that everything I love or care about is illusion, and yet—for me, anyway—all that’s worth living for lies in that charm?