But people have their own troubles and tend to forget. One is not all that interesting. Even Hitler is being forgotten at last.
As soon as any idea is a consolation the tendency to falsify it becomes strong: hence the traditional problem of preventing the idea of God from degenerating in the believer's mind.
Μου φαίνεται πάντοτε πολύ περίεργο το ότι ήσουν παντρεμένος.-Κι εμένα.
Το να εκφράσω μία επιθυμία σ’ένα γράμμα , συχνά έχω την παράλογη αίσθηση, ότι είναι ισοδύναμο με την εκπλήρωσή της. Το γράμμα είναι ένα φράγμα, μία ανάσχεση, ένα φυλαχτό εναντίον του κόσμου, μία σχεδό...
Ουρλιάζουμε ο καθένας χωριστά, στα χωριστά καπιτοναρισμένα κελιά μας.
Είναι απαίσια να είμαι ο εαυτός μου. Δεν ξέρεις τι είναι να ξυπνάς κάθε πρωί και να ξαναβρίσκεις ολόκληρη τη φρίκη της ύπαρξής σου.
White magic is black magic. a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people, and demons used for good can hang around and make mischief afterwards.
But it was love in an inferno: that terrible relentless withholding of forgiveness.
You don't understand people like me, like us, the other ones. You're like a bird that flies in the air, a fish that swims in the sea. You move, you look about you, you want things. There are others wh...
We naturally take in the catastrophes of our friends a pleasure which genuinely does not preclude friendship. This is partly but not entirely because we enjoy being empowered as helpers. The unexpecte...
There are special nightmares for the daytime sleeper: little nervous dreams tossed into some brief restless moments of unconsciousness and breaking through the surface of the mind to become confused a...
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...
The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first sig...
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...
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’s all a dream, he thought, one goes through life in a dream, it’s all too hard.
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...
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.