He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands.
If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.
Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society. It
In our age it is not sex that raises its ugly head, but love.
I have hope. But it's all an illusion.
It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. Inno...
She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect attractive men necessarily to have attrac...
A word (...) is never the destination, merely a signpost in its general direction; and whatever (...) body that destination finally acquires owes quite as much to the reader as to the writer.
Staring out to sea, I finally forced myself to stop thinking of her as someone still somewhere, if only in memory, still obscurely alive, breathing, doing, moving, but as a shovelful of ashes already...
Но он настолько ординарен, что это делает его неординарным.
I am infinitely strange to myself.
I remember later he said (Professor Higgins again), you don’t really stand a dog’s chance anyhow. You’re too pretty. The art of love’s your line: not the love of art.
Bir zaman insanlar kendi hazlarını yaratabileceğine inanıyordu; şimdi onların bedelini ödemesi gerektiğine inanıyor. Sanki çiçekler artık tarlalarda ve bahçelerde değil de; sadece çiçekçi dükkanlarınd...
In my opinion a lot of people who may seem happy now would do what I did or similar things if they had the money and the time. I
The silence was terrible then, as tense as a bridge about to break, a tower to fall; unedurable in its emotion, its truth bursting to be spoken.
You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.
He stared to sea. I gave up all ideas of practicing medicine. In spite of what I have just said about the wave and the water, in those years in France I am afraid I lived a selfish life. That is, I of...
German is to death what Latin is to ritual religion – entirely appropriate.
Davit,
If you are wise, you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.
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