If you have been embroiled in a war in which you confidently expected to die, what were you supposed to do with so much life unexpectedly left over? There were so many ways of passing the peace, and y...
Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.
Moreover it is one of the greatest curses of religion that it takes only the very slightest twist of a knife tip in the cloth of a shirt to turn neighbours who have loved each other into bitter enemie...
Money has no religion except itself.
[...] she understood that nothing is less obvious in a man than that which seems unquestionable.
Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable re...
The only thing more pitiful than a middle-aged punk is a white Rastafarian. I did meet one of those once, and he was lonelier than I was.
Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is...
Roza didn’t want to go, and she made the woman promise to let her ride the horse again. It was apparently called Russia because it was very big, a complete liability, and always going where it wasn’t...
Entailment of the family estates, but envisaged for himself
Visiem zināms, ka ģimenes gods ir atkarīgs no tās sieviešu uzvedības.
Psipsina emerged from inside the tunic, and jumped up on the table in order to curl up inside the cap, which had been her favourite resting place ever since she discovered the joys of contortionism; s...
It sometimes happens that in relatively powerless and impoverished countries there arise men of enormous vision who are frustrated and offended by the limitations of their lives and seek to reach out...
All their lovers' talk began with the phrase After the war.After the war, when we're married, shall we live in Italy? There are nice places. My father thinks I wouldn't like it, but I would. As long a...
The dead can read tears.
He read his own obituary and an editorial lamenting his demise and praising his fortitude and immediately began to think up witty ways of writing to the paper to announce his continued and uninterrupt...
We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.
She was beginning to understand that it is not enough to love someone deeply; you also have to learn to love them well.
Mīlestība ir pārejošs ārprāts, tā izverd kā vulkāns un pēc tam norimst. Un, kad tā norimusies, ir jāpieņem lēmums. Tad ir jāizdomā, vai jūsu abu saknes ir savijušās kopā tik cieši, ka par šķiršanos ne...
What's the news of the war?' The doctor twisted the ends of his moustache and said, 'Germany is taking everything, the Italians are playing the fool, the French have run away, the Belgians have been o...
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