For how can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit? In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out is mute. Only chance can speak to us. We read its message much as gypsies read the images made by coffee groun...
Everyone is wrong about the future. Man can only be certain about the present moment. But is that quite true either? Can he really know the present? Is he in a position to make any judgment about it?...
Even though the sewer pipelines reach far into our houses with their tentacles, they are carefully hidden from view and we are happily ignorant of the invisible Venice of shit underlying our bathrooms...
Es muss sein. Es muss sein.
Cada possibilidade nova que tem a existência, até a menos provável, transforma a existência inteira.
But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33)
But there was something more precious than his poems; something far away he didn’t yet possess and longed for—manliness; he knew that it could only be attained by action and courage; and if courage me...
But how to define the eroticism of a man (or an era) that sees female seductive power as centered in the middle of the body, in the navel?
Bu dünyada gençlik ve güzelliğin bir anlamı yoktu; birbirinin tıpatıp eşi, ruhları görünmez olmuş bedenlerle dolu uçsuz bucaksız bir toplama kampından başka bir şey değildi yaşadığımız dünya.
Before long, unfortunately, she began to be jealous herself, and Tomas saw her jealousy not as a Nobel Prize, but as a burden, a burden he would be saddled with until not long before his death.
As retretes das casas de banho modernas erguem-se do chão como uma flor branca de nenúfar. Os arquitectos fazem os impossíveis para que o corpo esqueça a sua miséria e para que o homem não saiba o que...
Apoi, într-o zi, m-am apucat să spun ceva ce nu trebuia spus, am fost [...] obligat să ies din horă. Atunci am înţeles semnificaţia magică a cercului. Cînd ieşi din rînd mai poţi reveni. Rîndul este o...
All this time he was sitting up in bed and looking at the woman who was lying beside him and holding his hand in her sleep. He felt an ineffable love for her. Her sleep must have been very light at th...
All languages that derive fromLatin form the word 'compassion' by combining the prefix meaning 'with' (com-) and the root meaning 'suffering' (Late Latin, passio). In other languages- Czech, Polish, G...
All languages that derive from Latin form the word compassion by combining the prefix meaning with (com-) and the root meaning suffering (Late Latin, passio). In other languages, Czech, Polish, German...
Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.
Agora, o pintor dissertava longamente acerca da composição: o que há de mais bonito nos sonhos, dizia, é o encontro improvável de seres e de coisas que não poderiam encontrar-se na vida corrente; num...
A ternura nasce no instante em que somos lançados no limiar da idade adulta e em que percebemos cheios de angústia as vantagens da infância, das quais não nos dávamos conta quando éramos crianças. A t...
A sudden happiness, a feeling of bliss, the joy that came of freedom and a new life - these were the gifts she had left him.