And in your opinion, the notion that everything works out in the end, and the counter-notion that nothing ever does, are both equally banal.
Also, when you are young, you think you can predict the likely pains and bleaknesses that age might bring. You imagine yourself being lonely, divorced, widowed; children growing away from you, friends...
Alice was surprised. In her worldview, everything was hopeless, but you just had to get on with it. And there wasn’t much point changing what you believed at this late stage of the game.
Acredito certamente que todos sofremos danos, de uma ou outra maneira. Como podíamos não sofrer, senão existe um mundo de pais, irmãos, vizinhos e companheiros perfeitos? E depois há a questão, de que...
A facetious if logical question comes into George's mind, from where he cannot tell, unless as a reaction to all this unwonted intensity. If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen...
Напереното ми безразличие се превърна във вбесено унижение. Възцари се английско мълчание – такова, през което и двете страни идеално разбират всички неизречени думи. Легнах си и се наревах. Повече не...
Most people didn’t experience the sixties until the seventies. Which meant, logically, that most people in the sixties were still experiencing the fifties—or, in my case, bits of both decades side by...
Melodramatic, I agree, but I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance),
كيف يطرحنا الزمن أرضا ثم يذهلنا.كنا نظن أننا ناضجين عندما كنا - فقط - في أمان.تخيلنا أننا مسؤولون لكننا كنا جبناء فحسب.ما أطلقنا عليهواقعيةتبين أنه هروب من الحقائق بدلا من مواجهتها.الزمن...امنحنا الكف...
إذا أردت أن تجعل الناس ينتبهون لما تقول،فلا ترفع صوتك،بل أخفضه أكثر:ذاك ما يجذب الانتباه فعلا.
И знао је, дакле, да се све тачне дефиниције уметности односе искључиво на њу саму, а да све погрешне дефиниције приписују уметности неку одређену функцију.
You have blown a large breach in the walls of my existence.
Sexual orthodoxy and the exercise of power. If a President can’t keep his pants on, does he lose the right to rule us? If a public servant cheats on his wife does this make him more likely to cheat on...
Finding another woman can bring an exceptional clarity of mind to a man all of a sudden.
Everything was down to chance, that the world existed in a state of perpetual chaos, and only some primitive storytelling instinct, itself doubtless a hangover from religion, retrospectively imposed m...
Drown out the noise of time, is transformed into the whisper of history. This
Both her secret life and her despair lay in the same inner chamber of her heart, inaccessible to me.
Between the principle and its implementation often lay some anguish.
[...]Because at some point everyone wants to run away from their life. It's about the only thing human beings have in common
You've got to be responsible for your own happiness - you can't expect it to come flopping through the door like a parcel.