لا حُزن يُصيب الوالدين أعظم من الحزن النّابع من العجز; إذّ عليهم أن يتقبّلوه، حتى لو فاق ذلك قدرتهم
لا أحد يتصل في الثامنة صباحاً في يوم العطلة وإن حصل ذلك فهو لنقل أخبار لا تستطيع الانتظار، هذه الأخبار تكون عادةً سيئة.
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.
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...
To think one thought meant thinking the opposite thought, and no sooner did that second thought destroy the first thought than a third thought rose up todestroy the second.
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...
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...
Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order to find out where he was; not solitary in the way Jonah was, praying for deliv...
Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverb...
Language, then, not simply as a list of separate things to be added up and whose sum total is equal to the world. Rather, language as it is laid out in the dictionary: an infinitely complex organism,...
In the end, the problem is not so much that people forget, but that they do not always forget the same thing. What still exists as a memory for one person can be irretrievably lost for another, and th...
If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics
He was there for you, and yet at the same time he was inaccessible. You felt there was a secret core in him that could never be penetrated, a mysterious center of hiddenness. To imitate him was someho...
En última instancia, una vida no es más que la suma de hechos contingentes, una crónica de intersecciones casuales, de azares, de sucesos fortuitos que no revelan nada más que su propia falta de propó...
Early in the summer of 1980, shortly after his son turned three, A. and the boy spent a week together in the country, in a house owned by friends who were off on vacation. A. noticed that Superman was...
Deep down, I don’t believe it takes any special talent for a person to lift himself off the ground and hover in the air. We all have it in us—every man, woman, and child—and with enough hard work and...
By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal, and it no longer mattered where he was.
All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.
نعم، هناك أشياء كثيرة أشعر بالخجل منها. أحياناْ لا تبدو لي حياتي أكثر من سلسلة من الندامات، والانعطافات الخاطئة، والأخطاء التي لا تُغتَفَر. هذه هي المشكلة عندما تبدأ بالنظر إلى الوراء. إنكَ ترى نفسك ك...
ما من أمر باقٍ في توالد حياتنا سوى الموت؛ هذه هي الحقيقة التي لا يمكن تبسيطها، إننا فانون.