1846Сред мореплавателите има такива, които откриват нови светове, прибавят земи към земята и звезди към звездите: те са властелините, великите мъже, нетленно прекрасните. Други бълват ужас от корабнит...
The complications of life do not end at the altar; some might say that this is where they begin.
As for knowing your own mind, this seemed a bewildering process. How could you know your own mind without using your mind to discover your mind in the first place?
The other half wanted to say, I love you, come away with me, sit on my knee, I'll always remember you. You so full of your past, me so full of my future.
You put together two people who have not been put together before. Sometimes it is like that first attempt to harness a hydrogen balloon to a fire balloon: do you prefer crash and burn, or burn and cr...
ظاهراً غریزه اش خوب کار میکرد : من آدمی بودم که باید به او پشت کرد. اگر زندگی سزای عمل را میدهد، من سزاوار اجتناب بودم...
جایی خوانده بودم اگر میخواهید مردم به آنچه میگویید توجه کنند، صدایتان را بلند نکنید، بلکه آرام حرف بزنید.
Бесполезное это занятие - придавать вещам смысл и значение, которых в них нет.
Ás veces penso que o sentido da vida é desgastarnos para reconciliarnos coa súa perda final, demostrándonos que, á marxe do tempo que lle leve, a vida non está en absoluto á altura da súa propia fama.
Time’s many paradoxes. For instance: that when we are young and sensitive, we are also at our most hurtful; whereas when the blood begins to slow, when we feel less sharply, when we are more armoured...
Those photographs taken from lunar orbit, in which our planet looks more or less like any other planet (except to an astronomer): silent, revolving, beautiful, dead, irrelevant.
The littleness of life that art exaggerates?
Strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.
Specific fund, you see. It’s a sort of general fund. Because at some point everyone wants to run away from their life. It’s about the only thing human beings have in common.
She wonders whether the Holy Ghost, conventionally represented as a dove, would not be better portrayed as a parrot. Logic is certainly on her side: parrots and Holy Ghosts can speak, whereas doves ca...
Pustular berk with the charisma of a plimsole
Once, they had their love story. Everyone does. It’s the only story.
Love might or might not promote kindness, gratify vanity, and clear the skin, but it did not lead to happiness; there was always an inequality of feeling or intention present. such was love's nature....
Have at times tried to imagine the despair which leads to suicide, attempted to conjure up the slew and slop of darkness in which only death appears as a pinprick of light:
Few incidents that have grown into anecdotes, to some approximate memories which time has deformed into certainty. If I can’t be sure of the actual events any more, I can at least be true to the impre...