Atât timp cât un număr suficient de oameni cred că e autentic, chiar e.
It is cruel that we are granted the desire to know, but denied the time to do it properly. We all die frustrated; it is the greatest lesson we have to learn.
I knew salesmen, they made good murderers.
I had never before spent a night with a woman, had someone lying by my side in the quietness of the dark, hearing her breath and feeling her warmth beside me.It is a sin, and it is a crime. I say it f...
I did not like Ravenscliff by instinct, but I was beginning to find him fascinating. A book-reading, socialist-sympathising, child-begetting capitalist fraud.
God forbid that I should ever suffer the shame of publishing a book for money, or of having one of my family so demean themselves. How can one tell who might read it? No worthy book has ever been writ...
Comrade Kropotkin has argued in the past that Darwinism is but a reflection of capitalism because it emphasises competition and struggle over cooperation and coexistence. It justifies the exploitation...
Although I do not need to be surrounded by others in order to feel alive, I do need some conversation and distraction.
A te trezi, în Roma ca și în oricare alt oraș, e o treabă personală și cel mai bine e să o rezolvi în liniște.
Creating a void which others seek to fill through conversation.
Rosie digested the information, but not the cake. Her mother was strict about eating between meals. 'A fat girl will never find a good man, Rosie,' was her view, handed down to her by Great-aunt Jessi...
People make the mistake of assuming far too many things about armies,’ Lefevre told me one evening. ‘They assume, for a start, that generals know what they are doing and know what is going on. They as...
Nu pot să spun că sunt mulțumit. Dar asta este. Ce poți face? Oamenii ăștia insistă să împartă faima cu mine.
Many of you know little about storytelling. Before I begin, let me explain. The Story is the story of us all. If understood properly, it is of immense power. It tells you who you are, what you might e...
Dar Bottando știa, datorită unei înțelepciuni ascuțite în ani întregi de activitate, că nu exista nici un document care să ateste că responsabilitatea nu-i mai aparținea, iar asta era îngrijorător.
As in most obituaries, the author said little about the man; they rarely do. But the reticence here was greater than usual. It mentioned that Ravenscliff left a wife, but did not say when they married...
And there will be no waste, I promise you, he went on, waving his finger in the air as he got into his stride.You see, the trouble with the professor is that, once he stops for lunch, he tends to lose...
And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.
Some were simple idlers spending an inheritance pretending to be poets or painters; and a couple were medical students, who had a wildness of such severity that I would hesitate ever to place myself u...
Although individuals and small events did affect the course of historical development, the influence of even major figures was strictly limited. In