Like a wallflower he stayed in the background waiting for someone to fetch him, someone more courageous and stronger than himself to tear him away and force him into happiness.
La moral no me ha procurado nunca nada que no fuera doloroso.
L'existence humaine ne devient une véritable souffrance, un enfer que lorsque deux époques, deux cultures, deux religions interfèrent l'une avec l'autre.
Kai žmogus ieško, tada lengvai atsitinka, kad jo akys mato tik tą dalyką, kurio ieško, ir jis nieko kito neįstengia pastebėti ar suvokti, nes visą laiką galvoja tik apie ieškomą daiktą - jis turi tiks...
It seems to have been my bad luck always to receive more than I could return, from life and friends.
It is extremely beautiful to belong to a woman, to give yourself. Don’t laugh if I sound foolish. But to love a woman, you see, to abandon yourself to her, to absorb her completely and feel absorbed b...
Il mondo è pieno di morte, pieno di morte; essa sta su ogni siepe, dietro ogni albero, e non giova costruir mura e dormitori e cappelle e chiese, essa guarda dentro dalla finestra e ride e conosce per...
I realised that all this talk was of no value and at its best only led to clever phrases.
I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon...
Here in this endless and gleaming wildernessI was removed farther than ever from the world of men --And I never saw so close and so clearlyThe image in the mirror of my own soul.
Her şey yabancıydı, güzel ve biraz da anlamsız; okul kitaplarından ve kartpostallardan çıkarıp alınmış manzaralar benziyordu. İnsanın daha önce bir kez gördüğünü anımsar gibi olduğu, ama gerçekte kend...
He raised himself above her pallid face and kissed her on both closed eyes and thought: she thinks she is taking and does not know that she is giving; in her loneliness she has fled to me and does not...
He began to suffocate slowly in the more and more rarefied atmosphere of remoteness and solitude. For now it was his wish no longer, nor his aim, to be alone and independent, but rather his lot and hi...
Good that you ask -- you should always ask, always have doubts.
Everyone lives through this difficult period. For the average person it’s the point in his life when the demands of his own life clash most violently with the world around him, when his forward path m...
Esta cartera no era una cartera, este monedero no era un monedero, las flores no eran flores, los abanicos no eran abanicos, todo era material plástico del amor, de la magia, de la provocación. Todo s...
El que haya gustado los otros días, los malos, los de los ataques de gota o los del maligno dolor de cabeza clavado detrás de los globos de los ojos, y convirtiendo, por arte del diablo, toda activida...
Disclosing his wound to this listener was the same as bathing it in the river, until it became cool and one with the river.
De entre los sonidos, palabras y otros elementos triviales, podemos construir juguetes líricos e intelectuales, originar filosofías y canciones llenas de mensajes y consuelo más bellas que el ruin dep...
Das Leben, das ich selbst gewähltEhe ich in dieses Erdenleben kamWard mir gezeigt, wie ich es leben würde.Da war die Kümmernis, da war der Gram,Da war das Elend und die Leidensbürde.Da war das Laster,...