I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.
He got up and said, I think you’ve got something in you. I don’t know. Women very rarely have. I mean most women just want to be good at something, they’ve got good-at minds, and they mean deftness an...
Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.'To live alone?'To live. With what you are.
As if I'd lit a fire in the darkness to try and warm us. And all I'd done was to see his real face by it.
Men love war because it allows them to look serious because it is the only thing that stops women laughing at them.
But she finally had the good sense to see that a long, dull and predictable future was an expensive price to pay for the satisfaction of a passing sexual attraction.
Она хорошая, хорошая, но ее любопытство стягивает меня, как сеть. Я - будто уродливый паразит, который может существовать лишь при удачном стечении обстоятельств, в неком непрочном симбиозе. Те, что н...
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...
Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?
Utram bibis? Aquam an undam? Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?
Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist; it is always relative to some observer or some object. Without a clock I say 'I do not know the time' . Without matter time itself is unknowable. Time is a...
There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
The thin end of the sensible clothes wedge had been inserted in society by the disgraceful Mrs Bloomer a decade and a half before the year of which I write; but that early attempt at the trouser suit...
She would give herself violently, then yawn at the wrongest moment. She would spend all one day cleaning up the flat, cooking, ironing. Then, pass the next three or four Boheminanly on the floor in fr...
She liked doing things, and only then finding a reason for doing them.
Ne considera, pe mine si pe fete, imaturi si naivi, dar noi ne puteam dovedi de zece ori mai perfizi decat el, tocmai pentru ca eram englezi - nascuti pentru a purta masca si educati de mici sa mintim...
It’s rather like your voice. You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven’t any choice. But it’s what you say that counts. It’s what distinguishes all great art from the other kind.
I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that mo...
He's a collector. That's the great dead thing in him.
Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.