Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.
No wine can be regarded as unimportant, my friend, since the marriage at Cana.
Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on clocks and the passage of light. There were no clocks and the light wouldn...
It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look around and see who is wanted too.
It didn't matter anyway...he wasn't made for peace, he couldn't believe in it. Heaven was a word: hell was something he could trust.
I have no need to write to you or talk to you, you know everything before I can speak, but when one loves, one feels the need to use the same old ways one has always used. I know I am only beginning t...
Hullo, commandant,' I said, 'how's the General?''Which general?' he asked with a shy grin.'Surely in the Caodaist faith,' I said, 'all generals are reconciled.
He had always despised people who thought about the past. To live was to leave behind; to be as free as a shipwrecked man who has lost everything.
At the end of what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything every disappointment every failure and every betrayal which has accepted even the sad...
I have no talent; it's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
He was as incapable of imagining pain or danger to himself as he was incapable of conceiving the pain he caused others.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
Навлязоха в новия квартал Ведадо, застроен с ниски кремавобели къщи — собственост на богаташи. На колкото по-малко етажи беше къщата, толкова по-богат бе обитателят ѝ. Само един милионер можеше да си...
Why do I love this place so much? Is it because here human nature hasn't time to disguise itself? Nobody here could talk about a heaven on earth. Heaven remained rigidly in its proper place on the oth...
We didn’t want to be reminded of how little we counted, how quickly, simply, and anonymously death came. Even though my reason wanted the state of death, I was afraid like a virgin of the act. I would...
The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine i...
Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.
She thought for the first time, with happiness: perhaps I have a life in people's minds when I am not there to be seen or talked to.
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.