The ladies’ mauve-dyed hair interspersed with the bald patches of the gentlemen, who had taken off their panama hats—they must have broken out of an old-age home, I thought, but I didn’t say it.
Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body—we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!
JOURNAL INTIME: Wenn ich einmal darin lese, zum Beispiel weil ich ein Datum brauche für unser Gespräch, so bin ich bestürzt: daß ich vor zwei oder fünf Jahren genu zu derselben Einsicht gekommen bin –...
Ich verdanke dir mein Leben. Ich weiß. Wenn du Wert darauf legst, ich kann es jeden Tag einmal sagen: ich verdanke dir mein Leben (...) Du ekelst mich (...) Geh pissen (...) Heul nicht deinen Schnaps...
How many children are really wanted? The fact that the woman would rather have it once it’s there is a different matter, an automatic reaction of the instincts, she forgets she tried to avoid it and a...
Gefühle am Morgen, das erträgt kein Mann. Dann lieber Geschirr waschen!
Аз не мога през цялото време да изпитвам чувства. Да бъда сам, за мене това е единствената възможна форма на съществуване, понеже нямам никакво желание да правя една жена нещастна, а жените проявяват...
She thought it stupid of a woman to want to be understood by a man; the man (said Hanna) wants the woman to be a mystery, so that he can be inspired and excited by his own incomprehension.
I've often wondered what people mean when they talk about an experience. I'm a technologist and accustomed to seeing things as they are. I see everything they are talking about very clearly; after all...
Do you know, she said, that was the Ludovisi Altar we liked so much this morning. It’s madly famous! I let her give me a lecture.
A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party.
At times he got on my nerves, like all artists who think themselves loftier or more profound beings simply because they don’t know what electricity is.