Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
POMPIERUL: Hai să vă zic alta. Cocoşul. „într-o bună zi, un cocoş a vrut să facă pe câinele. Numai că n-a avut noroc, a fost imediat recunoscut.DOAMNA SMITH: Da, dar câinele care a vrut să facă pe coc...
Ever since I was fifteen, that is to say from that moment when I lost all that was left me of my childhood, from the moment when I ceased to be aware of the present and knew only the past hurrying int...
BÉRENGER - (a Jean) Você tem força.JEAN - Sim, eu tenho força: Tenho força por várias razões. Em primeiro lugar, eutenho força, porque eu tenho força e em segundo lugar, eu tenho força, porque tenhofo...
All doctors are quacks. And all patients too. Only the Royal Navy is honest in England.
OLD MAN: Make believe yourself, it's your turn. OLD WOMAN: It's your turn. OLD MAN: Your turn. OLD WOMAN: Your turn OLD MAN: Your turn. OLD WOMAN: Your turn.
I am sad when I think that the years go by like sacks that we mark Returned Empty, sad when I think that we shall be separated from one another and from ourselves.
De fiecare dată o iau de la început.Iau întodeauna un caiet nou.De fiecare dată sper că asta va duce la ceva,că va fi o experiență constructivă,că voi deschide o ușă.Dar nu.Pană să ajung la o ușă oare...
You can only predict things after they've happened.
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that direc...
Un médecin consciencieux doit mourir avec le malade s'ils ne peuvent pas guérir ensemble. Le commandant d'un bateau périt avec le bateau, dans les vagues. Il ne lui survit pas.
The Dog and the Cow, an experimental fable. Once upon a time another cow asked another dog: Why have you not swallowed your trunk? Pardon me, replied the dog, it is because I thought that I was an ele...
O critică „negativă se realizează strălucitor pe lucidităţi mărunte. Lucrul acesta îl ştia până şi Titu Maiorescu: cita cazul omului de bun-simţ care s-a revoltat că poetul compară ochii iubitei cu do...
Experience teaches us that when one hears the doorbell ring it is because there is never anyone there.
Another syllogism. All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
Nu fiţi indulgenţi (indulgenta e o laşitate) şi să nu vă fie frică să mărturisiţi clar că tot ce se face în cultura noastră este nouăzeci şi nouă la sută rizibil şi unu la sută lizibil. Nu aveţi încre...
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
To you, ladies and gentlemen, and dear comrades, who are all that is left from humanity, but with such leftovers one can still make a very good soup.
Now didn't I warn you, just a little while ago: arithmetic leads to philology, and philology leads to crime . . .
Ne m'envoie plus ouvrir la porte. Tu as vu que c'était inutile. L'expérience nous apprend que lorsqu'on entend sonner à la porte, c'est qu'il n'y a jamais personne.