Why should people have money if they don't know how to use it?
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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)
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.
If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.
I've been sitting here and thinking about God. I don't think I believe in God any more. It is not only me, I think of all the millions who must have lived like this in the war. The Anne Franks. And ba...
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...
I mean most women just want to be good at something, they’ve got good-at minds, and they mean deftness and a flair and good taste and what-not. They can’t ever understand that if your desire is to go...
He said, men are vile.I said, the vilest thing about them is that they can say that with a smile on their faces.
Between skin and skin there is only light. And there was my poetry.
Moments one knows only death will obliterate.
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...
Всесторонне подготовленный к провалу, я вступил в большую жизнь.
What this instruction cannot give is the deepest benefit of any art, be it of making, or of knowing, or of experiencing: which is self-expression and self-discovery.