It was a dizzying prospect—to imagine all that freedom, to understand how little it mattered what choice he made.
It was one of the most sublimely exhilarating moments of my life. I was half a step in front of the real, an inch or two beyond the confines of my body, and when the thing happened just as I thought i...
It was the first time since his master’s death that he had been able to think about such things without feeling crushed by sorrow, the first time he had understood that memory was a place, a real plac...
That was the real difference, Ferguson concluded. Not too little money or too much money, not what a person did or failed to do, not buying a larger house or a more expensive car, but ambition. That e...
The gods looked down from their mountain and shrugged.
The room was a machine that measured my condition: how much of me remained, how much of me was no longer there. I was both perpetrator and witness, both actor and audience in a theater of one. I could...
We are not where we are . . . but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our natures, we suppose a case, and put ourselves into it, and hence are in two cases at the same time, and it is doubly...
When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.
You had to invent something. It's not possible to leave it blank. The mindwon't let you.
You must get used to doing with as little as you can. By wantingless, you are content with less, and the less you need, the betteroff you are.
Man unable to see anything but the thoughts inside his own head, a man who was there but not there, gone. That was the real difference, Ferguson concluded. Not too little money or too much money, not...
What at first had seemed to be no more than a small bump in the road was turned into a full-scale misfortune
بعد وفاة والدي بأيام وقعت أسوأ اللحظات التي مررت بها، كنت اعبر الباحة الامامية للمنزل تحت المطر الغزير المنهمر، أحمل في يدي مجموعة من ربطات العنق التي امتلكها، حوالي مائة ربطة عنق أو تزيد، تذكرت بعضها...
تشعر وكأن لا شيء يملك القدرة أبدًا على اقتحامه واختراقه، كأنّ لا حاجة له لأي شيء ممّا يعرفه العالم.
حتى الوقائع قد لا تقول الحقيقة دائمًا.
قد تمكن من الإبقاء على مسافة تفصله عن الحياة لكي يتجنب الانغمار في جريانها وسرعة أشيائها.
لا أحد يتصل في الثامنة صباحاً في يوم العطلة وإن حصل ذلك فهو لنقل أخبار لا تستطيع الانتظار، هذه الأخبار تكون عادةً سيئة.
Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you...
Cannot possibly know who you are, you imagine that she is suspicious of all young people-as a matter of principle- and therefore what she sees when she looks at you is not you as yourself but you as y...
Feelings were always feelings, subjectively true one hundred percent of the time...
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