She had that look - scared and sort of paralysed but frantic underneath - that girls got when they could think of only the one thing. It was a look that told him it would be her first time.
Me pregunto si los demás, de niños, tienen ese tipo de imagen, a la vez vaga y concreta, de lo que les gustaría ser de mayores. No hablo de esperanzas y aspiraciones, ni de vagas ambiciones, ese tipo...
In this new life I am condemned to, is there nothing that is not open to doubt?
I had a sudden image of myself as a sort of large dark simian something slumped there at the table, or not a something but a nothing, rather, a hole in the room, a palpable absence, a darkness visible...
I am not all sneers and scathings, you see, I have my gentler side.
From earliest days I wanted to be someone else. The injunction nosce te ipsum had an ashen taste on my tongue from the first time a teacher enjoined me to repeat it after him. I knew myself, all too w...
Another week done with. How quickly the time goes as the season advances, the earth hurtling along its groove into the years's sharply descending final arc.
And incredulity, that too was a large part of being happy. I mean that euphoric inability fully to believe in one’s own simple luck. There I was, suddenly, with a girl in my arms, figuratively, at lea...
And anyway, who’s to say that what we see when we’re drunk is not reality, and the sober world a bleared phantasmagoria
Защото спомените много държат да съответстват напълно и безпогрешно на отново посетените места и неща от миналото.
He had scores to settle with the world, and she, at that moment, was world enough for him.
Ბავშვობაში ბედნიერება სულ სხვა რამეა. მეტწილად უბრალოდ აგროვებ ახალ გრძნობებს, შეგრძნებებს თუ გამოცდილებას და მერე იმ პრიალა მოზაიკასავით აწყობ, ერთ მშვენიერ დღეს შენივე საკუთარ, უკვე დასრულებულ მე-დ...
The telephone ringing gave me a dreadful start. I have never got used to this machine, the way it crouches so malevolently, ready to start clamouring for attention when you least expect it, like a mad...
The tea-bag is a vile invention suggestive to my perhaps overly squeamish eye of something a careless person might leave behind unflushed in the lavatory.
Quello che accade non ha importanza; il momento è tutto. Questo è il mondo d'oro. Il pittore ha radunato il suo piccolo gruppo di persone e le ha poste in questa radura agitata dal vento, in questa de...
It was not just the drink, though, that was making me happy, but the tenderness of things, the simple goodness of the world. This sunset, for instance, how lavishly it was laid on, the clouds, the lig...
Inhabiting a place that could not be home, they were like actors compelled to play themselves.
I was always a distinct no-one, whose fiercest wish was to be an indistinct someone.
I am, as is surely apparent by now, a thing made up wholly of poses. In this I may not be unique, it may be thus for everyone, more or less, I do not know, or care. What I do know is that having lived...
How is it that in childhood everything new that caught my interest had an aura of the uncanny, since according to all the authorities the uncanny is not some new thing but a thing known returning in a...