People believe a little too easily that the function of the sun is to help the cabbages along.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeoisie.
By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.
I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
She watched her son’s happiness in sad silence, as a ruined man looks through the windows at people dining in his old house.
Enjôleur,
When you are some-'one', why would you wish to be some-'thing'?
What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.
There was always an uncertain promise dangling in the future like a golden fruit hanging from some fantastic bough.
She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay behind her had been bad, no doubt that which remained to be lived would be better.
Pauvre petite femme! Ça baîlle après l'amour, comme une carpe après l'eau sur une table de cuisine. Avec trois mots de galanterie, cela vous adorerait, j'en suis sûr! ce serait tendre! charmannt!... O...
No se piensa en nada; las horas pasan. Uno se pasea inmovil por paises que cree ver, y su pensamiento, enlazandose a la ficcion, se recrea en los detalles o sigue el hilo de las aventuras. Se identifi...
Madame was in her room upstairs. She wore an open dressing gown that showed between the shawl facings of her bodice a pleated chamisette with three gold buttons. Her belt was a corded girdle with grea...
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of somebody's wishing to become, of all things, a Professor of Literature.
Les deux femmes, vêtues de noir, remirent le corps dans le lit de ma sœur, elles jetèrent dessus des fleurs et de l’eau bénite, puis, lorsque le soleil eut fini de jeter dans l’appartement sa lueur ro...
L'amour, croyait-elle, devait arriver tout à coup, avec de grands éclats et des fulgurations, -- ouragan des cieux qui tombe sur la vie, la bouleverse, arrache les volontés comme des feuilles et empor...
Jer sam smatrao da me moja samoća čini lijepim, i da je moje srce utoliko šire ukoliko ga držim daleko od svega što znači ljudsku radost.
I'm the sort of man who's doomed to be a failure and I'll go to my grave without ever knowing whether I was real gold or just tinsel!
Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.