The day after his father left, Franz and his mother went into town together, and as they left home Franz noticed that her shoes did not match. He was in a quandary: he wanted to point out the mistake,...
Tenderness is the attempt to create a tiny artificial space in which it is mutually agreed that each will treat the other like a child.
Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man. As opposed to a motorcyclist, the runner is always present in his body, forever required to think about his blisters, his exh...
Sigo teniendo ante mis ojos a Teresa, sentada en un tocón, acariciando la cabeza de Karenin y pensando en la debacle de la humanidad. En ese momento recuerdo otra imagen: Nietzsche sale de su hotel en...
She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: we are at the last station. The happiness meant: we are together.
She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content. H...
Pero es precisamente el debil quien debe ser fuerte y saber marcharse cuando el fuerte es demasiado debil para ser capaz de hacerle daño al debil
Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, t...
Only the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware of this never-to-return. (p.148)
Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.
Now we are longtime outcasts, flying through the emptiness of time in a straight line. Yet somewhere deep down a thin thread still ties us to that far-off misty Paradise, where Adam leans over a well...
Ni jedna ljubav ne može preživjeti u šutnji.
Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in rectification (of deeds, errors, sins, injustice). Both are s...
Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
Man proceeds in the fog. But when he looks back to judge people of the past, he sees no fog on their path. From his present, which was their faraway future, their path looks perfectly clear to him, go...
Love begins with a metaphor. Love begins at a point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
Leroy interrupted Chantal's fantasies: Freedom? As you live our your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom. You're free to melt your own i...
Kitsch is the translation of the stupidity of received ideas into the language of beauty and feeling. It moves us to tears of compassion for ourselves, for the banality of what we think and feel.
Keep this in mind: it is our religion to praise life. The word life is the king of words. The kingword surrounded by other grand words. The word adventure! The word future! And the word hope! By the...
Just as someone in pain is linked by his groans to the present moment (and is entirely outside past and future), so someone bursting out in such ecstatic laughter is without memory and desire, for he...