Знаете ли, аз мисля, че животът трябва да се приема такъв, какъвто е. (...) Всичко е в божиите ръце и ние не знаем нищо за утрешния ден, с което искам да кажа, че да приемаш живота такъв, какъвто е, о...
He could not quite understand what had happened. he began to sense an aura of hitherto unknown happiness emanating from them
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...
What he did succeed in seeing behind him in his mind's eye was tiny, compressed like a closed accordion.
To laugh is to live profoundly.
Through the air floated only important words, and Flajsman said to himself that love has but one true measure, and that is death. At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death...
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...
Si las personas sólo fueran responsables de lo que hacen conscientemente, los idiotas estarían de antemano libres de cualquier culpa
People who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all.
People thought up the idea that animals don't have the same capability of suffering as humans, because otherwise they couldn't bear the knowledge that they are surrounded by a world of nature that is...
People meet in the course of life, they talk together, they discuss, they quarrel, without realizing that they're talking to one another across a distance, each from an observation post standing in a...
Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.
Misery and pride. 'On horseback, death and a peacock'.
Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me: I loved something that, by conviction (or by my nature) I should...
Fare l'amore con una donna e dormire con una donna sono due passioni non solo diverse, ma quasi opposte. L'amore non si manifesta con il desiderio di fare l'amore [...] ma col desiderio di dormire ins...
Eventually we come to know and understand a lot of things, but it's too late, because a whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing.
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...
As early as 1930 Schoenberg wrote: Radio is an enemy, a ruthless enemy marching irresistibly forward, and any resistance is hopeless; it force-feeds us music . . . regardless of whether we want to hea...
Memory cannot be understood, either, without a mathematical approach. The fundamental given is the ratio between the amount of time in the lived life and the amount of time from that life that is stor...
You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.