Back in 'my day' – though I didn't claim ownership of it at the time, this is what used to happen: you met a girl, you were attracted to her, you tried to ingratiate yourself, you would invite her to...
Atunci când ţi se frânge inima, gândea el, se despică aidoma lemnului, pe toată lungimea scândurii. În primele zile petrecute la fabrică, l-a văzut pe Gustaf Olsson cum a luat o scândură zdravănă şi a...
And what percentage of people take up the option to die off?’ She looked at me, her glance telling me to be calm. ‘Oh, a hundred per cent, of course. Over many thousands of years, calculated by old ti...
And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love, you deceived your legal wife, and all in the name of honour. That was the damned para...
Altitude reduces all things to their relative proportions, and to the truth. Cares, remorse, disgust become strangers: How easily indifference, contempt, forgetfulness drop away...and forgiveness desc...
In this country shadings of class resist time longer than differentials in age
يدهشني أن ذلك ربما يكون أحد الاختلافات المهمة بين الشباب والشيخوخة،في شبابنا نخترع مستقبلا مختلفا لأنفسنا،أما في شيخوختنا فإننا نخترع لنا ماضيا مختلفا.
بزرگسالی هم مانند همه تغییرات سیاسی و تاریخی است که دیر یا زود مایه ناامیدی ما میشود.
Защо творбите ни подтикват да преследваме писателите? Защо не оставим хората на мира? Не можем ли да се задоволим само с книгите им?
Быть русским человеком - значит быть пессимистом; быть советским человеком - значит быть оптимистом. Поэтому выражение Советская Россия внутренне противоречиво.
You put together two people who have not been put together before; and sometimes the world is changed, sometimes not. They may crash and burn, or burn and crash. But sometimes, something new is made,...
You got your cheese, I hope? You won't mind a word of advice? Eat it. Don't put it in a plastic bag in the fridge and save it for visitors; before you know where you are it'll have swollen to three ti...
Who was it said that memory is what we thought we'd forgotten? And it ought to be obvious to us that time doesn't act as a fixative, rather as a solvent. But it's not convenient--it's not useful--to b...
When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can’t make up their minds. Perhaps it’s a way of...
When we killed – or exiled – God, we also killed ourselves. Did we notice that sufficiently at the time? No God, no afterlife, no us. We were right to kill Him, of course, this long-standing imaginary...
When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and approved. Of course, love does not always bring approval: being seen may just a...
What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love’s fav...
What did I care about saving the world if the world couldn’t, wouldn’t, save her?
What could be put up against the noise of time? Only that music which is inside ourselves – the music of our being – which is transformed by some into real music. Which, over the decades, if it is str...
Well, in one sense, I can’t know what it is that I don’t know. That’s philosophically self-evident.