But death is not easy, and life can win by simulating it.
Art must invent new beauty, not play with what has already been made, religion must invent God and never rest.
Art and psychoanalisis give shape and meaning to life and that's why we adore them. However, life as it is lived has no shape nor meaning, and that's what I am experiencing right now.
A love without reservation ought to be a life force compelling the world into order and beauty. But that love can be so strong and yet so entirely powerless is what breaks the heart.
…) Μερικές φορές αρχίζει να μου λέει πως με μισεί, με μισεί…-Όλοι οι παντρεμένοι το ψιθυρίζουν αυτό ο ένας στον άλλο όλη την ώρα. Αυτή είναι η θεμελιώδης λιτανεία του έγγαμου βίου.
Πιστεύω πως οι γυναίκες, ίσως ασυνείδητα, μεταβιβάζουν στις κόρες τους ένα βαθύ αίσθημα της δικιάς τους δυσαρέσκειας.
Ουρλιάζουμε ο καθένας χωριστά, στα χωριστά καπιτοναρισμένα κελιά μας.
But it was love in an inferno: that terrible relentless withholding of forgiveness.
Yet on the other hand, I did manage to write, and without more than occasional repining, during my years of bondage, and I would not, as some unsatisfied writers do, blame my lack of productivity upon...
This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart...
The division of one day from the next must be one of the most profound peculiarities of life on this planet. We are not condemned to sustained flights of being, but are constantly refreshed by little...
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...
Te amo. ¿Te sorprende? No sé. Amar a alguien es simplemente un hecho. No quiero decir que no hubiera, y que no haya, razones para amarte. Podría hallar miles. Pero en cuanto al pasado, al siempre-habe...
Odd I should have said those words before and forgotten them. It makes one feel that human beings are just machines after all.
My personal peculiarities could not offend her since she was totally uninterested in my pretensions to be a person.
Jednakże zdołałem pojąć, jak fałszywym mitem jest haute cuisine, wytworna kuchnia (...) Już sama strata czasu na ich przygotowanie jest nonsensem (...) Panuje również złudny pogląd, że przyrządzenie n...
It had indeed been a failure of faith and courage not to wander on through the forest, not to search faithfully for his true mate, not to believe and endure.
How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon retur...
Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.
He could feel the pain of her heart beating strongly against his own.