Pain is cowardly, it gives way before the overpowering will to live which seems to cling more strongly to our flesh than all the mortal suffering of the spirit.
Ich spüre wieder erschrocken, eine wie schwache, armselige und quallige Substanz das doch sein muß, was wir immer großspurig Seele, Geist, Gefühl, was wir Schmerzen nen-nen, da all dies selbst im äuße...
El derecho impone también deberes y que el amor más puro acaba por fatigarse si no se siente correspondido.
D’aussi purs poètes, tout entiers dévoués au lyrisme, seront-ils encore possibles dans notre époque de turbulence et de désordre universel ? N’est-ce pas une lignée disparue que je regrette en eux ave...
[...] wie ein Taucher sogar, der schon ahnt, dass das Seil nach der Außenwelt abgerissen ist und er nie zurückgeholt werden wird aus der lautlosen Tiefe.
Un pressentiment vague et fiévreux mêlait un frisson de volupté à l'anxiété d'Edgar.
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.
To be free of customs: Custom clouds the true face of things.
The writer in him is only the shadow of the man, though so often we observe men whose art of writing is so great, but whose art of living is so modest.
The woman has a dangerous decision to confront, whether she will live her own life, or that of her children, whether she will be a woman first or a mother first.
The strikingly broad, almost athletically powerful shoulders unfortunately reflected the character of his playing too, for this Mr. McConnor was one of those self-obsessed big wheels who feel personal...
The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange a...
States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.
She wanted, out of a kind of mysterious vindictiveness born of despair, to torture us with her torture, to arraign us, the hale and hearty, in the place of God.
She tries to think, but the monotonous stuttering of the wheels breaks the flow of her thoughts, and the narcotic cowl of sleep tightens over her throbbing forehead—that muffled and yet overpowering r...
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.
O an içimdeki bu donuklaşma sürecinin ne kadar ilerlemiş olduğunu birden görüverdim - Hiçbir yere tutunmadan, hiçbir yerde köklenmeden, akan suyun üzerinde kayar gibi yaşıyordum ve bu soğuklukta ölü,...
Nothing gives so keen an edge to the intelligence as a passionate suspicion.