And if you had no tongue, no celebrating language, you’d do this: cross your hands at the wrist with palms facing towards you; place your crossed wrists over your heart (the middle of your chest, anyw...
And does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce?No, that’s too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it sw...
And I thought of a cresting wave of water, lit by a moon, rushing past and vanishing upstream, pursued by a band of yelping students whose torchbeams criss-crossed in the dark. There is accumulation....
An element of propaganda, of sales and marketing, always intervened between the inner and the outer person.
In this country shadings of class resist time longer than differentials in age
Is recycling to do with global warming?- Need you ask?- Well, I only ask because we've been recycling for twenty years or so, and no one was talking about global warming back then.
فكما أن التغييرات السياسية والتاريخية محبطة،فإن التقدم في العمر محبط كذلك.وكذلك هي الحياة.أظن أحيانا أن غرض الحياة هو أن نعتاد الخسارات النهائية،أن تثبت لنا أنها ليست جيدة كما نتصور وندعي.
تاریخی که بیخ گوشمان شکل میگیرد باید شفافترین تاریخ باشد و بااینحال، بیش از هر چیز جای تردید دارد.
Быть русским человеком - значит быть пессимистом; быть советским человеком - значит быть оптимистом. Поэтому выражение Советская Россия внутренне противоречиво.
Ρίξτε μια ματιά γύρω σας και θα δείτε πόσους έχει σακατέψει ψυχολογικά η απλή, καθημερινή ζωή.
We must be precise with love, its language and its gestures. If it is to save us, we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death
Deliquescent.
Young, middle-aged, elderly, old, dead: this was how life conjugated. (No, life was a noun, so this is how life declined. Yes, that was better in any case, life declined.
You realize that you want official interference into other people’s lives but not into your own. You also realize that your truthfulness has become dangerously flexible.
You only followed where you were going if you wanted to get back to where you had started from, and she knew that was impossible.
Would you rather tear up your own expressions of love, or the ones you had received?
Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.
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...
Which are truer, the happy memories, or the unhappy ones? He decided, eventually, that the question was unanswerable.
When you're young - when I was young - you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality. Later, I think, you wan...