From this skull-rock strange golden roots throwIkons and incidents; the man in the maskManipulates. I am the fool that fallsAnd never learns to wait and watch,Icarus eternally damned, the dupe of time...
Despite all the identifying, measuring, photographing, I had managed to set the experience in a kind of present past, a having looked, even as I was temporally and physically still looking...It is not...
Boredom, the numbing, annual predictability of life hung over the staff like a cloud. And it was real boredom, not my modish ennui. From it flowed cant, hypocrisy, and the impotent rage of the old who...
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
We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.
ليست المسألة هى أننا لا نؤمن وانما هى أننا لا نستطيع أن نؤمن
Как-то он показал мне сосуд. Называется морилка. Усыплятьбабочек. Вот я и сижу в такой морилке. Бьюсь крыльями о стекло. Оттого, чтооно прозрачно, мне кажется, что побег возможен. Что есть надежда. То...
Как отметил в своей монографии Пятидесятые на распутье доктор Кончис, бунтарю, который не обладает даром бунтаря от природы, уготована судьбы трутня; но и эта метафора неточна, ибо у трутня всегда ост...
You're not me. You can't feel like I feel.I can feel.No you can't. You just choose not to feel or something and everything's fine.It's not fine. It's just not so bad.
We lay on the ground and kissed. Perhaps you smile. That we only lay on the ground and kissed. You young people can lend your bodies now, play with them, give them as we could not. But remember that y...
The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty.As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built! Or could live in them all. It's obvious, it stares you in the fact. T...
The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand the...
She was a mirror that did not lie; whose interest in me was real; whose love was real.
Sex is just an activity, like anything else. It's not dirty, it's just two people playing with each other's bodies. Like dancing. Like a game.
Nu va vorbi niciodată, nu va ierta, nu va întinde niciodată mîna, va rămîne de-a pururi înacest prezent îngheţat. Totul este suspendat în aşteptare: copacii de toamnă, cerul de toamnă, trecătoriianoni...
My only certainty in life is that I shall one day die. I can be certain of nothing else in the future. But either we survive (and so far in human history a vast majority has always survived) and havin...
Man is an everlack, an infinite withoutness, afloat on an apparently endless ocean of apparently endless indifference to individual things. Obscurely he sees catastrophes happening to other rafts, raf...
Love is something that comes in different clothes, with a different way and different face, and perhaps it takes a long time for you to accept it, to be able to call it love.
Long afterwards I realized why some men, racing drivers and their like, become addicted to speed. There are those of us who never see death ahead, but eternally behind: in any moment that stops and th...
Kuşkusuz, kendimizi olduğu gibi kabullenmek, daima ne olmamız gerektiğinin önüne geçmelidir; işte bu yüzden, bu bir adım öne gitmek demekti...John Fowles-The Magus (Büyücü)