We may choose to freeze a moment and say that it all 'began' then, but as an historian I have to tell you that such labelling is intellectually indefensible. What we are looking at is almost always a...
To je ono što ne valja na ovom svetu, pomislila je. Digli smo ruke od osmatranja.
To die from 'a draining away of one's strength caused by extreme old age' was in Montaigne's day a 'rare, singular and extraordinary death.' Nowadays we assume it as our right.
Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young, erode. We end up belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself. [p. 66]
Those in the middle got killed; governments and terrorists survived. At
This is where we work, in the interstices of ignorance, the land of contradiction and silence, planning to convince you with the seemingly known, to resolve - or make usefully vivid - the contradictio...
They grow up so quickly, don’t they? when all you really mean is: time goes faster for me nowadays. Margaret’s
There was another thing. It was a job below his qualifications. Not that he didn’t take it seriously; he did. But since, professionally, he had now lowered his expectations, he found that he was rarel...
There are two essential kinds of loneliness: that of not having found someone to love, and that of having been deprived of the one you did love. The first kind is worse. Nothing can compare to the lon...
The more so because, among its repetitions, it is always looking for new ways to prick you.
The conventional accept and are frequently charmed by a certain unconventionality.
The best fiction rarely provides answers; but it does formulate the questions exceptionally well.
The ability to see and examine himself; the ability to make moral decisions and act on them; the mental and physical courage of his suicide. He took his own life is the phrase; but Adrian also took ch...
Someone once said that his favourite times in history were when things were collapsing, because that meant something new was being born. Does this make any sense if we apply it to our individual lives...
Sav taj napor - čemu? Nema formalnog odgovora glavnom talasu slike, baš kao što nema odgovora ni većini ljudskih osećanja. Ne samo nadi, već bilo kakvoj tegobnoj čežnji: častoljublju, mržnji, ljubavi...
Quantas vezes contamos a história da nossa vida? Quantas vezes adaptamos, embelezamos, fazemos cortes matreiros? E, quanto mais a vida avança, menos são os que à nossa volta desafiam o nosso relato, p...
Perhaps I just feel safer with the history that’s been more or less agreed upon.
Op het erf van de boerderij zag je soms de meest onwaarschijnlijke vormen van verbondenheid - de gans verliefd op de ezel, het katje veilig spelend tussen de poten van de vervaarlijke kettinghond. En...
One way of legitimising coincidences, of course, is to call them ironies. That
Oliver used to have a theory he called Love, etc.: in other words the world divides into people for whom love is everything and the rest of life is a mere 'etc.,' and people who don't value love enoug...