And it was the pride and ambition of the Jewish people to co-operate in the front ranks to carry on the former glory of the fame of Viennese culture.
What a mercy, I thought, that the crippled, the maimed, those whom Fate has cheated, at least in sleep have no knowledge of the shapeliness or unshapeliness of their bodies,
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.
This contact with the overpowering is her first encounter with travel’s disconcerting ability to strip the hard shell of habit from the heart, leaving only the bare, fertile kernel.
The woman who had been born in an imperial palace, and then, as Queen of France, had had hundreds of rooms in her dwelling house, was now imprisoned in a tiny basement cell, its walls streaming with d...
The natural elements of sunlight, water and air were not permitted to touch a woman’s bare skin. At the seaside, women made their laborious way through the water in heavy bathing costumes, covered fro...
Sólo porque creía conocer un secreto le fue posible a Magallanes descifrar el secreto geográfico más grande de su época. Sólo
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.
Que a la larga no se puede defender la libertad de las masas, sino únicamente la propia, la libertad interior.
Publicity in itself, of whatever nature, connotes a disturbance of the natural equilibrium of a man. Under normal circumstances, the name a human being bears is no more than the band is to a cigar: a...
O dönemde bazı yarı farkındalık anlarında bilincine tam varmadan içimde özlemini çektiğim şey arzulardan ziyade, arzulama arzusuydu; daha güçlü, daha bağımsız, daha tutkulu, daha doyumsuz istek duyma,...
Non vi è dubbio che una figura eroica, per il fatto solo della sua esistenza, domina per decenni e per secoli la vita spirituale. Nella vita dei fatti e della realtà, nella sfera della politica, ben d...
L’amour coûte cher aux vieillards—I think that was the title of one of Balzac’s most moving stories, and many could be written on the subject. But the old people who know most about it are happy
La gratitud nos hace felices porque son raras las ocasiones en que se nos hace visible; toda delicadeza nos produce un efecto saludable, y para mí, naturaleza fría y mesurada, aquella superabundancia...
In medicine the use of the knife is often the kinder course.
In itself all publicity disturbs a man’s natural equilibrium. In normal circumstances your name means no more than the band on a cigar—a means of recognition, an outward object of little importance th...
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.
Es gehört zur Tragik aller Despoten, daß sie den unabhängigen Menschen selbst dann noch fürchten, wenn sie ihn politisch machtlos und mundtot gemacht haben. Es genügt ihnen nicht, daß er schweigt und...
Eram mãos de uma beleza muito invulgar, extraordinariamente longas, extraordinariamente magras e, no entanto, atravessadas por músculos muito rígidos...mãos muito brancas possuindo na extremidade unha...