Non ricorda più l'ultima volta che è riuscita a dormire per sei ore piene, sei ore ininterrotte senza svegliarsi da un brutto sogno o scoprire che i suoi occhi si erano aperti all'alba, e sa che quest...
Nevertheless, this anger was inside him—I believe constantly. Like the house that was well ordered and yet falling apart from within, the man himself was calm, almost supernatural in his imperturbabil...
Most other people, your wife included, with her unerring inner compass, seem to be able to get around without difficulty. They know where they are, where they have been, and where they are going, but...
It's June second, he told himself. Try to remember that. This is New York, and tomorrow will be June third. If all goes well, the following day will be the fourth. But nothing is certain.
If you do not consider the man before you to be human, there are few restraints of conscience on your behavior towards him.
I've been trying to fit everything in, trying to get to the end before it's too late, but I see now how badly I've deceived myself. Words do not allow such things. The closer you come to the end, the...
Aus den fernsten Weiten des Weltraums betrachtet, ist die Erde nicht größer als ein Staubkorn. Bedenke das, wenn du das nächste Mal das Wort Menschheit schreibst.
A book is a mysterious object, I said, and once it floats out into the world, anything can happen.
She's too sad to be beautiful. No one that sad can still be beautiful.
Განა კითხვა უხილავის საკუთარი თვალით დანახვის ხელოვნება არ არის? განა კითხვის სილამაზე იმ სიჩუმეში არაა, შენ გარშემო რომ ისადგურებს, სანამ ამბავში მთლიანად ხარ ჩაძირული? განა ამ დროს შენში ავტორის ხმა...
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...
نعم ، هناك أشياء كثيرة أشعر بالخجل منها . أحياناً لا تبدو لي حياتي أكثر منسلسلة من الندامات ، والانعطافات الخاطئة ، والأخطاء التي لا ُتغتفر . هذه هي
رجل يجد الحياة قابلة للعيش على سطح نفسه، من الطبيعي جداً أن يكتفي بإظهار سطحه للآخرين.
أحياناً أعتقد أن الموت هو الشيء الوحيد الذي نكن له أية مشاعر , إنه شكلنا الفني , الطريقة الوحيدة التي نستطيع بها أن نعبر عن أنفسنا
Because he was a man who had suffered but because he was a man who had suffered and could still crack jokes.
A story about two friends who stop being friends because of a dispute in which both of their arguments are wrong
The world was full of holes, tiny apertures of meaninglessness, microscopic rifts that the mind could walk through, and once you were on the other side of one of those holes, you were free of yourself...
The grinding search for money can crush the spirit out of you unless you're made of steel.
Sáng trưng, rồi bóng tối. Nắng dội xuống từ mọi ngả trời, sau đó là đêm đen, những vì sao im lặng, gió xao động lá cành. Lệ thường là vậy.
One day there is life . . . and then, suddenly, it happens there is death