So there are long conversations in cafés about Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir, and Albert Camus and Raymond Queneau, and all the boys that we were just beginning to get excited about in Lond...
The chief requirement of the good life', said Michael, 'is that one should have some conception of one's capacities. One must know oneself sufficiently to know what is the next thing. One must study c...
Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends can never be properly tied, one is always producing new ones. Time, like the sea, unties all kn...
We may love our chains and our stripes too.
Well, we all three loved and comforted each other. We were poorish and lonely and awkward together.
You imagine that to live in a state of extremity is necessarily to discover the truth about yourself. What you discover then is violence and emptiness. And of this you make a virtue.
Είναι απαίσια να είμαι ο εαυτός μου. Δεν ξέρεις τι είναι να ξυπνάς κάθε πρωί και να ξαναβρίσκεις ολόκληρη τη φρίκη της ύπαρξής σου.
—Pero es que no puedo compartir nada contigo... No puedo compartir tus recuerdos, tu idioma, tu música, tu trabajo, nada. Soy sólo... sólo una mujer.—Una mujer. ¿Y acaso esto no es serlo todo?—No, no...
—Tu amor por mí no vive en el mundo real. Sí, no niego que sea amor. Pero no todos los amores tienen un cauce por el que correr, y este amor no tiene ningún cauce en absoluto. Debido a lo que yo soy y...
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Dora was stunned by this information. She stopped. 'Do you mean' she said, 'that they're completely imprisoned in there?'Mrs. Marks laughed. 'Not imprisoned, my dear,' she said. 'They are there of the...
…) Νομίζει πως είναι κατά κάποιο τρόπο μοναδική και διαπιστώνει τώρα πως δεν έχει κανένα ιδιαίτερο ταλέντο.-Αυτό μοιάζει χαρακτηριστικά με την ανθρώπινη μοίρα.
Brooding about the past is so often fantasy of how one might have won and resentment that one didn’t. It is that resentment which one so often mistakes for repentance
But death is not easy, and life can win by simulating it.
Ce mi se potriveşte mie cel mai bine este dramatismul despărţirilor sau aşteptarea impacientată a începuturilor şi a întâlnirilor.Nicicând n-aş putea prefera plicticoasa eternă prezenţă a căsniciei.Nu...
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
Happy is the civilization which can breed men accustomed from infancy to regard certain at least of the ego's natural activities as unthinkable.
How mysterious night and day are, this endless procession off dark and light....I think such sad thoughts - of people in trouble and afraid, all lonely people all prisoners.
It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom which is a proper human goal is the freedom from fantasy, that is the realism of compa...
Odd I should have said those words before and forgotten them. It makes one feel that human beings are just machines after all.
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