Suicide wore the mask of self-rejection; but in reality nobody took their personality more seriously than the person who was planning to kill himself on its instructions. Nobody was more determined to...
Observe Everything. Always think for yourself. Never let other people make important decisions for you.
Rome wasn’t deconstructed in a day.
Why was he in this state? Or perhaps the question was why had he not always been in this state? Why had he not always found life so disturbing and so poignant?
A genius of savoir faire,
No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.
A face like a crème brûlée after the first blow of the spoon,
What if memories were just memories, without any consolatory or persecutory power? Would they exist at all, or was it always emotional pressure that summoned images from what was potentially all of ex...
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
He found her pretty in a bewildered, washed-out way, but it was her restlessness that aroused him, the quiet exasperation of a woman who longs to throw herself into something significant, but cannot f...
Dilapidated
Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.
Every paradise demands a serpent.
He thought of one of the guiding mottoes of his father’s life: ‘Never apologize, never explain.
And then the old exhortations would come out: observe everything…trust nobody…despise your mother…effort is vulgar…things were better in the eighteenth century.
All she remembered was that Caligula had planned to torture his wife to find out why he was so devoted to her. What was David’s excuse, she wondered.
You can only give things up once they start to let you down.
People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.
The two men left the building with a sense of achievement, counterbalanced by desire.
Like a man walking backwards along a path, erasing his footsteps with a broom, he had tried, through contradiction, negation, paradox, unreliable narration and every other method he could devise, to c...