By writing books, a man turns into a universe.
But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.
But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of the age of science , instantly fades away.
But deep down she said to herself, Franz maybe strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people he lives with, the people he's loves, he's weak. Franz's weakness is called goo...
Being a woman is a fate Sabina did not choose. What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure. Sabina believed that she had to assume to correct attitude to her unchosen...
Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it. We've always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range plan. That's what enabled western man to spend decades building a Got...
Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?
Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes of Central Europe are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: The criminal regimes were made not by criminals but by enthusiasts co...
Another image comes to mind: Nietzsche leaving his hotel in Turin. Seeing a horse and a coachman beating it with a whip, Nietzsche went up to the horse and, before the coachman’s very eyes, put his ar...
All of man's life among his kind is nothing other than a battle to seize the ear of others.
Abroad, she discovered that the transformation of music into noise was a planetary process by which mankind was entering the historical phase of total ugliness. The total ugliness to come had made its...
A scarf from her dress works free and floats behind her the way memories float behind the dead.
A person finds it distasteful to hear his life recounted with a different interpretation from his own.
God) being the old man invented in order to, and with whom to, hold long conversations.
Is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. is a truth much more universally valid, and it applies to everything that's alive.
A novel does not assert anything, a novel poses questions... The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a myst...
من يعش في الغربة يمشِ في فضاء خاوٍ فوق الأرض مجردًا من شبكة الرعاية التي تحيط بها، كل كائن بشري، بلاده الأم حيث توجد عائلته وزملائه وأصدقاؤه، وحيث يستطيع أن يتواصل مع الآخرين دون جهد، باللغة التي يعرف...
من يعتذر فإنه يعترف بذنبه، وحين تعترف بذنبك، تشجِّع الآخر على الاستمرار في اهانتك وفضحك على الملأ حتى مماتك هذه هي العواقب الوخيمة للأعتذار..هذا صحيح يجب علي المرء الا يعتذر، ولكني افضل عالماً يعتذر ف...
لو لم أر صورتي في المرآة, و طُلب منّي وصف هيئتي الخارجية انطلاقاً من معرفتي بنفسي, لرسمت صورة لا صلة لها بصورتي التي تُرى! فأنا لست مطلقاً ما أبدو عليه
لا شيء يجلب السعادة أكثر من امرأة كانت منذ عهدٍ قريب مرهوبة الجانب، لكنها جُرِدَت من أسلحتها فلم تعد تثير الخوف