Nur in ersten Jugendjahren scheint Zufall noch mit Schicksal identisch. Später weiß man, dass die eigentliche Bahn des Lebens von innen bestimmt war; wie kraus und sinnlos unser Weg von unseren Wünsch...
Dreams are like delicate little white flowers that will be blown away at the first breath of reality?
To free oneself of ambitions and all forms of avarice: Thirst for glory is the most futile of all, the most valueless and bogus currency known to man.
The world existed for me only in relationship to you.
That is how our arch-adventurer likes to live, moving on from explosion to explosion of fortune and misfortune.
My today and each of my yesterdays, my rises and falls, are so diverse that I sometimes feel as if I had lived not one, but several existences, each one different from the others.
Macellan'ın artık çürütemeyeceği bu iddialar doğru mu gerçekten? ve tarih daha sonra Macellan'a hak verse bile genellikle tarihin kaybedenlere değil kazananlara hak verdiğini unutmamak gerekir. Hebbe...
Liebe Leser, auf Anregung einer Leserin habe ich mich dazu entschlossen, diese Sammlung mit einem alphabetischen Index zu versehen.
It is only the immeasurable, the limitless that terrifies us. That which is set within defined, fixed limits is a challenge to our powers, comes to be the measure of our strength.
I had an irresistible desire to make a last effort to awaken your memory.
He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt no inclination to be alone and avoided it as far as possible; he didn't really want to become any b...
He lived one of those lives that seem otiose because they are not linked to any community of interest, because all the riches stored in them by a thousand separate valuable experiences will pass when...
He becomes an auto-psychologist. What do I know? he asks himself.
Even if I had gone further than in all honesty I should have done, my lies, those lies born of pity, had made her happy; and to make a person happy could never be a crime.
Die Familie der Mutter ist international, bei Familientreffen wird Italienisch, Französisch, Deutsch oder Englisch gesprochen. Die jüdische Herkunft spielt dabei keine Rolle, niemand im familiären Umf...
Değerli olan her zaman için gerçeğin yarısı değil, tamamıdır.
But in no epoch has the struggle to find sanctuary in a foreign country been as arduous as in the present day, as countries isolate themselves behind hostility and jealousy (from The House of a Thousa...
Ben kendimi, ışığın hiçbir zaman içinde kalmadan geçip gittiği camdan bir nesne gibi hissettim.
Artık her şeyi biliyorlar. Kendilerine yalan söylendiğini, bütün insanların kötü olduğunu ve alçaklık edebileceğini biliyorlar. Ana babalarını da sevmiyorlar artık, onlara inanmıyorlar.
Alles nach dem ist Ernüchterung, Abschattung nach diesem Rausch von Farben und Formen, nach der göttlichen Vielfalt dieser Stadt.
