Since then, whenever I make new acquaintances, men or women with the potential of becoming friends or lovers, I project them back into that time, that hall, and ask myself whether they would have rais...
She was in the grip of an insuperable longing to fall. She lived in a constant state of vertigo. Pick me up, is the message of a person who keeps falling.
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...
She fixed him with a long careful, searching stare that was not devoid of irony's intelligent sparkle
Putting it negatively, the myth of eternal return states that a life which disappears once and for all, which does not return, is like a shadow, without weight, dead in advance, and whether it was hor...
Prijateljstvo je neophodno čovjeku za dobar rad pamćenja. Sjećati se svoje prošlosti, nositi je uza se, to je možda nužan uvjet da se sačuva, kako kažu, integritet svoga 'ja'. Da to 'ja' ne zakržlja,...
Počeo sam shvaćati da nema te sile koja bi mogla izmijeniti sliku moje ličnosti, koja je pohranjena negdje gdje se s najvišeg mjesta odlučuje o ljudskim sudbinama; shvatio sam da je ta slika (ma kolik...
Pick me up, is the message of a person who keeps falling. Tomas kept picking her up, patiently.
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.
Nunca se pode saber o que se deve querer, pois só se tem uma vida e não se pode nem compará-la com as vidas anteriores nem corrigi-la nas vidas posteriores.
Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders.
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.
Love begins with a metaphor, which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetice memory.pg 209
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.
It was drizzling. As people rushed along, they began opening umbrellas over their heads, and all at once the streets were crowded too. Arched umbrella roofs collided with one another. The men were cou...