آنچه درنهایت به یاد میآوری همیشه عین همان چیزی نیست که خود شاهدش بودهای.
Я сказал, что то, что вы найдете совсем необязательно будет тем, чего вы хотели. Например любовь. Она не такая, как нам казалось вначале. Все согласны? Лучше, хуже, дольше, короче, более значительна,...
Молчать Марта умела виртуозно. Давным-давно она поняла — точнее, впитала из окружающей среды путем социального осмоса, — что женщина призвана разговорить мужчину, победить его скованность; тогда он ра...
Бесполезное это занятие - придавать вещам смысл и значение, которых в них нет.
Οι αρνητές του χρόνου λένε: τα σαράντα δεν είναι τίποτα, στα πενήντα είσαι στο άνθος της ηλικίας σου, τα εξήντα είναι σήμερα σαν τα παλιά σαράντα, και πάει λέγοντας. Αυτό που ξέρω εγώ είναι ότι υπάρχε...
Δεν λέω ότι ο έρωτας θα σε κάνει ευτυχισμένο-προπαντός αυτο δε λέν λέω. Κι αν τείνω να πιστέψω κάτι, αυτό είναι πως θα σε κάνει δυστυχισμένο. είτε αμέσως, καθώς σε διαπερνά η αίσθηση της ασυμβατότητας...
Poets seem able to turn bad love – selfish, shitty love – into good love poetry. Prose writers lack this power of admirable, dishonest transformation. We can only turn bad love into prose about bad lo...
Mental states can be inferred from actions. That’s in history—Henry VIII and all that. Whereas in the private life, I think the converse is true: that you can infer past actions from current mental st...
Drown out the noise of time, is transformed into the whisper of history. This
[...]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.
You must not be angry with me. You must think of me as an incomplete person.
Why do you think this great nation of ours loves the Royal Family? Gun Law. If we didn't have it, you'd be asking the opposite question.
Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense.
Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense. Did I think Adrian’s acti...
We muddle along, we let life happen to us, we gradually build up a store of memories. There is the question of accumulation, but not in the sense that Adrian meant, just the simple adding up and addin...
We live in time, it bounds us and defines us, and time is supposed to measure history, isn't it? But if we can't understand time, can't grasp its mysteries of pace and progress, what chance do we have...
We live in time - it holds us and molds us - but I never felt I understood it very well. And I'm not referring to theories about how it bends and doubles back, or may exist elsewhere in parallel versi...
Was this their exact exchange? Almost certainly not. Still, it is my best memory of their exchange.
Voleo bih da je život kao bankarstvo', rekao sam. 'Ne mislim doslovno. Ima tu vrlo komplikovanih stvari. Ali, na kraju sve shvatiš ako se samo potrudiš. Ili uvek postoji negde neko ko se razume, pa ma...