It’s ahead of us. All I can tell you is, not even courage will help. Are you reading Alma Mahler again? No. Her voice was even and knowing. The underground river. The ceiling lowers, grows wet, the wa...
It was love, the furnace into which everything was dropped.
As Rilke says, there are no classes for beginners in life, the most difficult thing is always asked of one right away.
Art, in a sense, is life brought to a standstill, rescued from time. The secret of making it is simple: discard everything that is good enough.
Vamos allá, arriesguemos nuestras vidas. Porque si tienen algún valor, es precisamente que no tienen ninguno.
Tus besos me destierran
There are men who seem to have seized the trunk of life, and he was one of them. It might not be for everyone, the great, scarring thing you could not get your arms around, but it was there for him.
ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed.
Mentre sedevano vicini o mangiavano o camminavano, lui condivideva liberamente con lei i suoi pensieri e le sue idee sulla vita, la storia, l’arte. Le parlava di ogni cosa. Sapeva che lei non si inter...
Jivan: You think when you have love that love is easy to find, that everyone has it. It's not true. It's very hard to find.Nedra: I haven't been looking for it.Jivan: It's like a tree...It takes a lon...
I am creating him out of my own inadequacies, you must remember that
He unrolls names like a splendid carpet.
He knew all the constellations. He had seen them rise in darkness over heartbreaking coasts.
Children are our crop, our fields, our earth. They are birds let loose into darkness. They are errors renewed. Still, they are the only source from which may be drawn a life more successful, more know...
When he undressed at night he was like a diplomat or a judge. A white body, gentle and powerless, emerged from his clothes, his position in the world lay tumbled on the floor, fallen from his ankles.....
There were other houses that always brought images of an orderly life, kitchens with plain sideboards, old windows, the comforts of marriage in their common form, which at times surpassed everything—b...
She comes to life with a soft exhausted sound, like someone saved from drowning.
One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards.Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwe...
He no longer lives in years; he is down to seasons. Finally it will become single nights, each one perilous as a lunar journey. He
Either that, he said, or it comes true later. I’ll tell you another story. There was a father who gave his son a shotgun. It was very small. It was a luparetta. So the son went to school, and he met a...