She argued. She cried. She took my faltering, my tortured refusals for something far finer than they really were. At the end of the afternoon, before we left the wood, and with a solemnity and sinceri...
Our stereotyping societies force us to feel more alone. They stamp masks on us and isolate out real selves. We all live in two worlds: the old comfortable man-centred world of absolutes and the harsh...
My only plea is that all artists have to range the full extent of their own lives freely. The rest of the world can censor and bury their private past. We cannot, and so have to remain partly green ti...
I’ve been sitting here and thinking about God. I don’t think I believe in God any more. It is not onlyme, I think of all the millions who must have lived like this in the war. The Anne Franks. And bac...
It seemed sadistic, this last wasteland of days. It was as if Conchis, with Alison’s connivance, proceeded by some outmoded Victorian dietetic morality—one couldn’t have more jam, the sweetness of eve...
It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.
It came to me…that I didn't want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through, because all I had been through my being ther...
Ideeea ca ne plac oamenii este o iluzie pe care trebuie s-o pastram in noi daca vrem sa traim in societate. Dar eu am expulzat-o de mult, cel putin cat traiesc aici. Tu vrei sa fii iubit? Eu ma multum...
I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
Charles gave his hat to Mary, set his lapels, wished he were dead, then went down the hall and into his ordeal.
Armastan elada täisverelist elu, armastan kõiki, kes lihtsalt ei istu ja jälgi.
Მთელი ამ დროის განმავლობაში არ ვფიქრობდი, რომ სერიოზულად ვაპირებდი რაიმეს. ვიცი, რომ ეს უცნაურად ჟღერს, მაგრამ ნამდვილად ასე იყო. ჩემთვის ვიმეორებდი, რომ არასდროს ასეთ რამეს არ გავაკეთებდი, რომ ეს მხო...
Я вновь впал в смутное состояние, в коем пребывал после университета: наверняка известно лишь то, чего ты не должен делать.
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...
We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.
We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
Un raspuns este intotdeauna o forma a mortii- Eu cred ca intrebarile sunt o forma a vietii.
These question-boundaries ...are ours, not of reality. We are led to them, caged by them not only culturally and intellectually, but quite physically, by the restlessness of our eyes and their limited...
The truth was I was not a cynic by nature; only by revolt. I had got away from what I hated, but I hadn’t found where I loved, and so I pretended that there was nowhere to love.
The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not wisdom, is why we devote such a huge proportion of the ingenuity...