Cause and effect are never divided between two people.
Wir sind nicht fertig geworden miteinander. Und darum, glaube ich, haben wir uns trotz allem nicht trennen können. Der arme Monsieur Dmitritsch! Er könnte alle ersinnbaren Qualitäten eines Mannes habe...
If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.[
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
Mathematically speaking, the probable (that in 6,000,000,000 throws with a regular six-sided die the die will come up proximately 1 ,000,000,000 times) and the improbable (that in six throws with the...
A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.
Das Wahrscheinliche (dass bei 6 000 000 000 Würfen mit einem regelmäßigen Sechserwürfel annähernd 1 000 000 000 Einser vorkommen) und das Unwahrscheinliche (dass bei 6 Würfen mit demselben Würfel einm...
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
Sie wird gebraucht, unsere Schuld, sie rechtfertigt viel im Leben anderer.
You can put anything into words, except your own life
A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.
When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?
Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.
Jeder Mensch erfindet sich früher oder später eine Geschichte, die er für sein Leben hält, [...] oder eine ganze Reihe von Geschichten [...].
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
Boys! she said. You can’t imagine what they’re like—they think you’re their mother, and that’s frightful!
I don’t deny that it was more than a coincidence which made things turn out as they did, it was a whole train of coincidences. But what has providence to do with it? I don’t need any mystical explanat...
My life was in her hands .
Come, she said. We’re married, Walter, married. Don’t touch me.
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