I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.
Он пригласил ее на танец и, помолчав с минуту, обратился к ней величаво и печально: «Как вы спасаетесь от одиночества?» — спросил он. Мелисса подняла на него взгляд, прямой спокойный взгляд слишком оп...
Высшее достижение великих религий — возведение сложной иерархии запретов. Но запрет рождает ту самую страсть, которую он призван излечить. Мы, каббалисты, говорим — . Мы принимаем все, дабы приблизить...
Out of the trembling pearly edges of the sky there swam slowly a high cluster of reddish basalt blocks, carved into the vague semblance (like a face in the fire) of a sphinx tortured by thirst; and th...
Impressive symbols of a wealth which is powerless to bring true leisure or peace of mind for it demands everything of the human soul.
There is never enough light. To which I responded without thought: For women perhaps. We men are less exigent.
The real teacher is endurance.
The most tender, the most tragic of illusions is perhaps to believe that our actions can add or subtract from the total quantity of good and evil in the world.
She took kisses like so many coats of paint […] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make her amorality if not palatable at lest understandable. I realize now the time I wasted i...
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
Neden gülüyorsun? En ciddi şeylere bile her zaman gülersin. Ah, öyle ya, üzülmen mi gerekir?Beni biraz olsun tanısaydı, bizim gibi her şeyi derinlemesine duyan, insan düşüncesinin içinden çıkılmaz düğ...
In her, as an Alexandrian, licence was in a curious way a form of self-abnegation, a travesty of freedom; and if I saw her as an exemplar of the city it was not of Alexandria, or Plotinus that I was f...
If you are born of the artist tribe it is a waste of time to try and function as a priest. You have to be faithful to your angle of vision, and at the same time recognise its partiality. There is a ki...
Any concentration of the will displaces life and gives it bias in motion. Reality, he believed, was always trying to copy the imagination of man, from which it derived.
A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
إننى أعتقد، أنه من الأفضل لنا أن ندير ظهورنا بوضوح للكلمات الرنانة مثل الجمال والحقيقة وما الى ذلك. هل ترين ما أرى؟ إننا سخفاء للغاية، وضعاف العقول عندما نتناول أمور الحياة،لكننا عمالقة عندما نحكم على...
إن تداخل الحقائق هو الطريقة الوحيدة كى تكون أمينا مع الزمن، حاشد فى كل لحظة باحتمالات لانهائية التكاثر. والحياة تتوقف على فعل الاختيار، أبدية الدينونة، وأبدية الانتقاء.
Was horrified too at the banality of her dancing, which was bad beyond measure; yet watching her make those gentle and ineffectual movements of her slim hands and feet (the air of a gazelle harnessed...
What do you believe? You never say anything. At the most you sometimes laugh.
There was some unresolved inner knot which she wished to untie and which was quite beyond my skill as a lover or a friend. Of course. Of course. I knew as much as could be known of the psychopathology...