Roth, non si inasprisca, abbiamo bisogno di lei,
Our decisions are to a much greater extent dependent on our desire to conform to the standards of our class and environment than we are inclined to admit. A considerable proportion of our reasoning is...
Once more my pity had been stronger than my will.
Once a man has found himself there is nothing in this world that he can lose. And once he has understood the humanity in himself, he will understand all human beings.
On the day I lost my passport I discovered, at the age of fifty-eight, that losing one’s native land implies more than parting with a circumscribed area of soil.
Nothing gives so keen an edge to the intelligence as a passionate suspicion.
No hay nada en el mundo que sea equiparable al secreto amor de una niña que permanece en la penumbra y tiene pocas esperanzas.
No basta que el artista esté inspirado para que produzca. Debe, además, trabajar y trabajar para llevar esa inspiración a la forma perfecta. La fórmula verdadera de la creación artística no es, pues,...
Mais l'amour ne devient vraiment réel qu'à partir du moment où il cesse de planer, douloureux et sombre, à l'état embryonnaire, au plus profond des entrailles, où il ose se nommer, s'avouer par le sou...
Lo mismo que ella en él, en la más extrema soledad, también él piensa en ella en el mismo momento. Apartada por leguas y muros, invisibles e inalcanzables una para otra, respiran sus dos almas con idé...
Les monomaniques de tout poil, les gens qui sont possédés par une seule idée m’ont toujours spécialement intrigué, car plus un esprit se limite, plus il touche par ailleurs à l’infini.
In earlier times, when there was a rage for physiognomy, a Gall might have dissected the brains of such chess champions to determine whether there was a special convolution in their gray matter, a kin...
I will tell you the whole story of my life, and it is a life that truly began only on the day I met you. Before that, there was nothing but murky confusion into which my memory never dipped again, som...
His tactic was to be as inconspicuous as possible, to attract the minimum of attention through outward appearance, to travel the world as if wearing a mask, to seek out only the path that would lead t...
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 studies virtues, vices, flaws and merits, the wisdom and puerility of others.
He had no taste for his own company and avoided such an encounter as much as possible, for the last thing he wanted was to make close acquaintance with himself.
For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless; it is precisely those who are apparently aloof from the world who build for themselves a remarkable and thor...
For the first time in my life I had received an assurance that I had been of use to someone on this earth, and my astonishment at the thought that I, a commonplace, unsophisticated young officer, shou...
Fakat bu çocuk benim her şeyimdi, sendendi, yeni bir sen, ama aynı zamanda artık sen değildi de; mutlu, kaygısız olan ve yanımda alıkoyamayacağım sen değildi o, aksine —öyle hayal ediyordum— sonsuza d...