I can’t have feelings all the time. Being alone is the only possible condition for me, since I don’t want to make a woman unhappy, and women have a tendency to become unhappy. Being alone isn’t always...
I believe Ivy wanted me to hate myself and seduced me merely to make me hate myself, and that was her joy, to humiliate me, the only joy I could give her.
Conversation was hardly possible; I had forgotten that anyone could be so young.
Писмата ви, когато сте разделени почти ви плашат, ощастливяват вас самите, понеже пишете с порой от забравени слова, на език, от който сте отвикнали. Телефонирате от хотелска стая с пусто двойно легло...
Wer sich nicht mit Politik befaßt, hat die politische Parteinahme, die er sich sparen möchte, bereits vollzogen: er dient der herrschenden Partei.
We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes--or rather, we've seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot: our kn...
Freunde müssen einander verstehen um Freunde zu bleiben. Brüder sind immer Brüder.
A race like these Mayas, who hadn’t discovered the wheel and built pyramids and temples in the jungle, where everything becomes smothered in moss and crumbles with damp—what for?
Only human beings can recognize catastrophes, provided they survive them; Nature recognizes no catastrophes.
Ivy was a model, she chose her clothes to match the color of the car, I think, and the color of the car to match her lipstick or the other way around, I’m not sure which it was.
In Florence I rebelled and told her that frankly I thought her Fra Angelico rather mawkish. Then I corrected myself and said naive. She didn’t deny it, on the contrary, she was delighted; it couldn’t...
Ich habe nie einen ernsthaften Versuch unternommen, meinem Leben ein Ende zu machen; auch keinen unernsthaften. Ich habe nur oft, in jedem Lebensalter, dran gedacht.
I had said what I never meant to say, but what has been said cannot be unsaid, I enjoyed our silence, I was completely sober again, but all the same I had no idea what I was thinking, probably nothing...
How many of the people I meet are interested in whether I’m enjoying myself, in my feelings at all?
Es gibt allerlei Arten, einen Menschen zu morden oder wenigstens seine Seele, und das merkt keine Polizei der Welt. Dann genügt ein Wort, eine Offenheit im rechten Augenblick. Dann genügt ein Lächeln....
Novels are no use at all on days like these, they deal with people and their relationships, with themselves and others, fathers and mothers and daughters or sons, lovers, etc., with individual souls,...
Сякаш се сгромолясваш през огледало, когато се събудиш, нищо друго не помниш, сякаш се сгромолясваш през всички огледала, а сетне светът отново се сглобява, все едно нищо не се е случило. А и нищо не...
Като всеки истински мъж аз живея с работата си. Нещо повече, нямам нужда от нищо друго и смятам за щастие факта, че живея сам – по ме мнение това е единствената възможна форма на съществуване за един...
On the one hand she had boundless trust in me, merely because I was thirty years older, a childish trust, and on the other hand no respect at all. I was vexed to find I expected respect.
There is no physical injury, unless the abortion is carried out by a quack; if there is any psychological injury it is only because the person in question is dominated by moral or religious ideas.