Mustafa Kemal drily reminds his co-conspirators that the object is not to die for the revolution, but to live for it.
Monogamy was an invention of men who wished to reduce the power of women over them.
Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.
Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms.
Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms. You blush in each other's presence, you both hover in places where you expect the other to pass, you are both a little...
Inside, the doctor filled an eyedropper with goat milk and began to drip it into the back of the marten's throat. It filled him with immense medical satisfaction when eventually it urinated on the kne...
I have often thought about this, and I have come to the conclusion that everything that I am is owed to you. You were like a gun that fired me a long way off, but the aim was yours. If you are proud o...
I have been driven to search everywhere just to find myself mentioned. I am mentioned almost nowhere, but where I find myself, I find myself condemned.
Britain really is an immense lunatic asylum. That is one of the things that distinguishes us among the nations. We have a very flexible conception of normality.
And the priest will say, ‘This is a matter of the Devil and not of God,’ and I will reply, ‘Did God not make the Devil? Is He not omniscient? How can I be blamed for what He knew would occur from the...
A todo o momento vejo coisas que gostaria que visses, gostaria que estivesses aqui para as veres com os teus próprios olhos. Procuro ver coisas para ti, e guarda-las na minha memória, e tenho a fantas...
This spirit rebels against the prison that my body has become, and my spirit is like a chrysalis that is ready to burst its shell, and when the shell bursts, it longs to be reborn in paradise,
No one is more truly themselves than when they are sick or injured. That’s when the qualities come out.
Half Scottish, respectable, and imbued with the powerful emotional restraint that those races have inherited somehow (via God knows what route) from the Spartans. It was a matter of self-conquest, ref...
Few sagging houses whose stones had lost their mortar and were held together only by gravity and habit,
A few sagging houses whose stones had lost their mortar and were held together only by gravity and habit,
Your lips are like sugarAnd your cheeks an appleYour breasts are paradiseAnd your body a lily.O, to kiss the sugarTo bite the appleTo reveal paradiseAnd open the lily.
The oligarchy was divided into Liberals and Conservatives, who were united in their terror of communism after the success of the Cuban Revolution, especially since many of them had had interests in th...
Since I encountered death, met death on every mountain path,conversed with death in my sleep, wrestled with death in the snow, gambled at dice with death, I have come to the conclusion that death is n...
Quite often the dolphins save the lives of those who are drowning, and sometimes they dolphins make a mistake and try to save those who are not drowning at all but are really diving for turtles. That...