Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself? To what degree of distortion does a beloved person still rema...
Back at home, after some prodding from Tereza, he admitted that he had been jealous watching her dance with a colleague of his. You mean you were really jealous? she asked him ten times or more, incre...
Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness b...
given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that which can exist (at least in the best instances) in the love between man and dog...It is a completely s...
To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.
Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a f...
ممارسة الحب مع امرأة، والنوم مع امرأة، شعوران مختلفان تماماً، بل ليس مجرد اختلاف وإنما تضاد. الحب لا يصنع بذاته شعوراً بالرغبة في الجماع (الرغبة التي تمتد لعدد لا حصر له من النساء)، ولكن شعوراً بالرغب...
تذكرت آنييس بأنها فُتِنَت في طفولتها بفكرة أن الله يراها، ويراها بدون توقف. شعرت حينئذٍ للمرة الأولى بلا شك، بتلك المتعة، ذلك التلذذ الغريب الذي يشعر به البشر لأنهم يُرَوْن، يُرَون على كرهٍ منهم، يُرَ...
الصمت يجذب الانتباه. وقد يكون مثيراً. يجعلك غامضاً أو مشبوهاً.
الحياة أقوى من الموت، لأن الحياة تتغذى على الموت!
Онова, което отличава образования човек от самоукия, не е количеството знание, а различната степен на виталност и самочувствие.
Être élu est une notion théologique qui veut dire : sans aucun mérite, par un verdict surnaturel, par une volonté libre, sinon capricieuse, de Dieu, on est choisi pour quelque chose d'exceptionnel et...
He could not quite understand what had happened. he began to sense an aura of hitherto unknown happiness emanating from them
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Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but only half understand. And history is terrible bec...
You are beautiful, he said, But I will have to leave you.
Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that time. The era of ancient Egyptian culture lasted for several...
Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.
The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.
The first step in liquidating a people,' said Hubl, 'is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new hi...