Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.
The cold grips us like handcuffs and the heat is the liberating key.
Dreams can be of value even if you don’t have an opportunity to turn them into reality.
At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country.
We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings.
This is what Sweden is - quiet people leaning over the newspapers and coffee cups, each one with his own thoughts and destiny.
There are two kinds of dangerous situations. One is the kind you get yourself into. The other just sucks you in.
The evil always comes from details.
Our colleagues don’t sound happy, Björk said with concern. It’s never popular to bring in someone from your own force. It’s going to be a dismal winter because of this.
Once more they had left their own time for another age. The age of Bellman, the bacchanalian 18th-century poet.
More and more people were being judged useless and were being flung to the margins of society, where they were destined to look back enviously at the few who still had reasons to be happy. He
Memory is like glass. A person who has died is still visible, very close. But we can no longer contact each other. Death is mute; it excludes conversations, only allows silence.
There will always be new opposites, class struggles and uprisings. History has no ending.
Sorrow and respect didn't follow a color scheme.
Society had grown cruel. People who felt they were unwanted or unwelcome in their own country, reacted with aggression. There was no such thing as meaningless violence. Every violent act had a meaning...
Ocurre una y otra vez, y ocurrirá siempre. El hombre pone en marcha nuevos proyectos sin tratar de hallar la cara oscura que puedan ocultar.
Mais il ne l'a pas oubliée, il ne l'oubliera jamais, elle était le grand amour de sa vie. Et elle, maintenant, je la retrouve en train de se biturer en plein midi à poil dans sa cuisine. Elle aussi, e...
Lo repugnante puede resultar atractivo a veces. Aterrador, amenazante, pero también tentador. Como cuando nos acercamos a algo que huele mal, pero no podemos dejar de aspirar el hedor.
History isn't just something that's being us, it's also something that follows us.
Every secret we confide in anotherperson can be a burden to them