That's all I've ever dreamed of, Mr. Bones. To make the world a better place. To bring some beauty to the drab humdrum corners of the soul. You can do it with a toaster, you can do it with a poem, you...
To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.
When you've lived as long as I have, you tend to think you've heardeverything, that there's nothing left that can shock you anymore.You grow a little complacent about your so-called knowledge of the w...
Winter solstice: the darkest time of the year. No sooner has he woken up in the morning than he feels the day beginning to slip away from him. There is no light to sink his teeth into, no sense of tim...
Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however improbable that might seem to him. Note here for the record that he is not someone with...
سيشعرك بأنه ما من شيء يستفزه، وأنه لا يحتاج لأي شيء يقدمه هذا العالم. رجل بلا شهية.
لا شيء أكثر رهبة من مواجهة أغراض رجل ميت.
وتعلْمتُ منذ ذلك الحين ألاّ أُفرِط في أخذ الأشياء التي تُقال لي على محمل الجد. ليس لأنَّه يحق للناس أنْ يكذبوا عليك، ولكن عندما يتعلَّق الأمر بالماضي، تصبح الحقيقة مُبهمة بسرعة. وتبرز الأساطير في غضون...
But if these unavoidable separations cause you a measure of pain, they also increase your longing for her, and perhaps that isn’t a bad thing, you decide, for you spend your days in the thrall of brea...
Do you know what happened the last time a nation listened to a bush? Honey asks. No one says a word. Its people wandered in the desert for forty years.
In general, lives seem to veer abruptly from one thing to another, to jostle and bump, to squirm. A person heads in one direction, turns sharply in mid-course, stalls, drifts, starts up again. Nothing...
In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.
The Adlers were diminishing. They had begun to look like one of those families in which no one got to be very old.
The whole scene had an imaginary quality to it. I knew that it was real, but at the same time it was better than reality, more nearly a projection of what I wanted from reality than anything I had exp...
They had come to the end of what they could talk about. Beyond that point there was nothing: the random thoughts of men who knew nothing.
What else we know?Nothing. That´s why we´re sitting together in this car now. Because we´re the same, and because we don´t know a damn thing other than that.
وشيئاً فشيئاً.. تسرب العالم بأكمله منها
As long as you continue to travel, the nowhere that lies between the here of home and the there of somewhere else will continue to be one of the places where you live.
That once you throw your life to the winds, you will discover things you had never known before, things that cannot be learned under any other circumstances.
Anything was possible, and just because things happened in one way didn't mean they couldn' t happen in another.
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