Between skin and skin, there is only light.
A cloud, it would
You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it...fictionalize it, in a word, and put it away on a shelf - your book, your r...
Yet this distance, all those abysses unbridged and then unbridgeable by radio, television, cheap travel and the rest, was not wholly bad. People knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more fr...
There were even times I thought I would forget her. But forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me.
The best wines take the longest to mature.
She liked doing things, and only then finding a reason for doing them.
Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.
Pero ya entonces me parecía muy lejana, aunque no en la distancia ni en el tiempo, sino en alguna dimensión para la que no tenemos nombre. En la realidad, quizás.
I should like you also to reflect that its events could have taken place only in a world where man considers himself superior to woman. In what the Americans call a man’s world. That is, a world gover...
I know I can't do things like love by halves, I know I have love pent up in me, I shall throw myself away, lose my heart and my body and my mind and soul to some cad like G.P. Who'll betray me. I feel...
He had not the benefit of existentialist terminology; but what he felt was a very clear case of the anxiety of freedom - that is, the realization that one is free and the realization that being free i...
Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.'To live alone?'To live. With what you are.
Girls possess sexual tact in inverse proportion to their standard of education.
and like most people who have spent much of their adult life being emotionally dishonest, I overcalculated the sympathy a final being honest would bring
النسيان ليس أمرا يفعله الإنسان ..وانما هو شئ ما يحدث للانسان !
Utram bibis? Aquam an undam? Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?
They’re teaching you to express personality at the Slade – personality in general. But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it’s no go if your personality isn’t worth tra...
There were minutes of silence then and in them I thought about the only truth that mattered, the only morality that mattered, the only sin, the only crime. When Lily de Seitas had told me her version...
It's like living in the Arabian Nights. Being the favourite in the harem. But the one perfume you really want is freedom.