Marriage is a long dull meal with the pudding served first.
Of course, there were other sorts of literature -- theoretical, self-referencial, lachrymosely autobiographical -- but they were just dry wanks.
You have blown a large breach in the walls of my existence.
[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would m...
You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...
Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.
When he's cheerful his tongue runs away with him, and he's depressed he can be unkind. So it's common sense not to let him into every are of your life.
When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell of cooking escaping from a ventilator: you don't have to have eaten it to know that it would make y...
Viver sozinho tem momentos de auto-comiseração e paranóia.
Throw off your grief,' such doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending that death doesn't exist, or at least is comfortably far away.
There is a German word, , which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic and mystical connotations; C.S. Lewis defined it as the 'inconsolable longing' in the h...
The law, and society, and religion all said it was impossible to be sane, healthy, and kill yourself.
The emphasis is on the lost, the abandoned, the discarded sinners, God’s detritus.
Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary
Or perhaps it’s that same paradox again: the history that happens underneath our noses ought to be the clearest, and yet it’s the most deliquescent. We live in time, it bounds us and defines us, and t...
Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.
Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death.
Kiedy jesteśmy młodzi, każdy powyżej trzydziestki wygląda na człowieka w średnim wieku, każdy po pięćdziesiątce na starca. I czas dowodzi, wraz ze swoim upływem, że nie myliliśmy się tak bardzo. Te dr...
It is better to waste your old age than to do nothing at all with it.
History: the lies of the victors, the self-delusions of the defeated.