Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing...
چگونه می‌توان به لحظه‌ای که درد بیهوده می‌شود، پی برد؟ چگونه می‌شود آن لحظه‌ای که زندگی دیگر ارزش ندارد، تشخیص داد؟
لو قدّر للثورة الفرنسية أن تتكرر بإستمرار، لكان المؤرخون الفرنسيون أقل فخراً بروبسبيير. ولكن بما أنهم يتحدثون عن شيء لن ترجع ثانية، فإن السنوات الدامية تصير مجرّد كلمات ونظريات ومجادلات؛ تصير أكثر خفة...
كانت فكرة أنه عاجز عن فعل شىء تغرقه فى حالة من الذهول وتهدىء من روعه فى آن واحد.
انظر! نصف هؤلاء الذين تراهم على الأقل قبيحون! أن يكون المرء قبيحًا! هل هذا أيضًا جزء من حقوق الإنسان؟ وهل تعرف أنه يحمل قبحه طيلة حياته؟ دون أية راحة؟ جنسك أيضًا، أنت لم تختره. ولم تختر لون عينيك ولا...
الحب هو تلك الرغبة في ايجاد النصف الآخر المفقود من انفسنا
إن تفرّد الأنا يكمن بالذات في هذا الجزء من المتعذر تصوره الذي يملكه كل انسان
Чудаците не живеят зле, стига да имат късмет хората да се съобразяват с чудачествата им.
Тереза знае, че в такива мигове се ражда любовта: жената не може да устои на зова, който вика навън уплашената ѝ душа;мъжът не може да устои на жената, чиято душа е трепнала от неговия глас.
Знаете што се случува кога двајца разговараат. Едниот зборува, а другиот му упаѓа во зборот: „баш исто како мене, јас... и почнува да си зборува за себе сè дури првиот не успее и самиот да се уфрли: „...
Čovjek sve proživljava prvi put i bez priprema. Kao glumac koji igra predstavu bez ikakve probe. Pa koliko onda vrijedi život ako je prva proba života već život sam? Život je zato uvijek sličan skici.
Čovjek i ne znajući komponira svoj život prema zakonima ljepote i u trenutcima najdubljeg beznađa.
When she looked longer at herself in her new dress, it was she but she living a different life, the life she would have lived if she had stayed in Prague.
What's the matter? he asked nothingwhat do you want me to do for you?i want you to be old. ten years older. twenty years olderwhat she meant was: i want you to be weak. as weak as i am.
Our day-to-day life is bombarded with fortuities or, to be more precise, with the accidental meetings of people and events we call coincidences. co-incidence means that two events unexpectedly happen...
A man who loses his privacy loses everything...a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster
[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of a man who cannot obtain a promised...
[...] to be absolutely modern means: never to question the content of modernity and to serve it as one serves the absolute, that is, without hesitation.
You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every time we look at it we see a different hue.
Yes, they have. It was back when they still didn't know each other by name. In the great hall of a mountain lodge, with people drinking and chattering around them, they exchanged a few commonplaces, b...