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.
Oh, all that was so far away, almost forgotten. But during her mother's five-day stay in Paris, that feeling of inferiority, of weakness, of dependency came over her again.
Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: -(1) an elevated level of general well being w...
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...
Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.
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...
And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.
A young woman forced to keep drunks supplied with beer and siblings with clean underwear -instead of being allowed to pursue something higher- stores up great reserves of vitality, a vitality never dr...
People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.
لم يبتلع التاريخ أفكاره و عواطفه فقط، بل ابتلع زمن حياته و إيقاعها، إنه الرجل الذي التهمه التاريخ، إنه ليس أكثر من حشو بشري للتاريخ. و قد كانت للروائي جرأة إلتقاط هذا الهول
لكي نتحاشى العذاب نلجأ في أكثر الأحيان الى المستقبل. فنتصوّر أن ثمة فاصلاً ما على حلبة الزمن يتوقف بعده العذاب الحالي عن أن يكون موجوداً
لكنه في إيثاكا لم يكن غريبا، كان واحدا منهم ولذلك لم يخطر لأحد منهم أن يقول له احكِ.
در مقابل دنیای پر از وقاحتی که او را دربر می‌گرفت، ترزا فقط یک سلاح داشت و آن‌هم کتاب‌هایی بود که از کتابخانه به امانت می‌گرفت.
بار هرچه سنگین‌تر باشد، زندگی ما به زمین نزدیک‌تر، واقعی‌تر و حقیقی‌تر است.
الكائن الإنساني ليس إلا شعوراً بالوحدة. وحيد يحيط به وحيدون.
Životopisci neznají sexuální život svých vlastních manželek, ale myslí si, že vědí všechno o pohlavních tajemstvích Stendhala nebo Faulknera.
Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.
We won't understand a thing about human life if we persist in avoiding the most obvious fact: that a reality no longer is what it was when it was; it cannot be reconstructed.