That was how the tears went down Cherry's face...a teaspoon full of ten years' sorrow.
Since the sum of her experience had told her that the majority of one’s prayers to God were not answered, she prayed now directly to us, she called upon the Devil, she implored him.
Since I believe that I have been a devil for many centuries and have risen in rank and been demoted, it could be asked why, with such a history, I still learned a good deal while in Russia. It is beca...
Retaining the phrases was a treacherous enterprise, however. His greatest problem these days had been boredom. Now he had discovered its loyal assistant—poor memory!
Repetition kills the soul.
Piety can also serve as a wall to keep the pious from recognizing how profoundly angry they are at God—this God who has failed to treat them by what they see as their proper right.
Nothing could be better than the moment when a woman opened her legs for you. That first time! If you had an eye for the little differences, you knew twice as much about her as you could learn from he...
It aroused my paranoia (which is always there in ready supply, since it is preferable to poor powers of anticipation).
If men could move out of infancy at half a mile an hour and get up to eighteen thousand miles an hour in one lifetime, well, who was to assume that the walls of the universe were safe from future men?
I suspect Kierkegaard had just that in mind when he proposed that people had to be wary of feeling too saintly, since they could not be certain of the source of such feelings.
How his hatred seethed in search of a justifiable excuse.
For the first time in civilized history, perhaps for the first time in all of history, we have been forced to live with the suppressed knowledge that the smallest facets of our personality or the most...
And they were always young, Air Corps pilots and ensigns, and good-looking girls in fur coats, and always the government secretary or two, the working girl as a carry-over from the fraternity parties...
The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide not murder.
As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.
In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.
Είναι μάλλον φανερό απ' όσα είπα έως τώρα ότι όχι μόνο είμαι υπαρξιστής, αλλά φτάνω και στο σημείο να πω ότι δεν γνωρίζουμε τη φύση μας. Απλώς μαθαίνουμε τον εαυτό μας όσο ζούμε τη ζωή μας. Και όσο μα...
Country people do not have enough to do with their minds. Their backs are strong, but their lives—year after year, it is the same. They are tired of being bored. So they start to think about the wrong...
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow old or else pay more for remaining the same.
The mark of a truly stupid man, he announced to Klara, is that he takes his own occupation so seriously that he comes to believe it is superior to others.