Farklı hisseden, farklı hassasiyetlere sahip ve farkındalığı güçlenmiş başka bir insan haline geldiğimi biliyorum. Daha iyi bir insan olduğumu iddia edecek cesaretim yok elbette, ama daha mutlu bir in...
People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.
Edebiyatta sınırları aşan önemli kişiler arasında, günümüzün en büyüğü Dostoyevski'dir, ruh alanında kimse ondan daha fazla yeni ülke keşfetmemiştir; bu müthiş, bu ölçüye sığmaz adamın kendi ifadesiyl...
A life without envy, hatred and lies was not a life worth living.
Ich war durch meine fürchterliche Situation gezwungen, diese Spaltung in ein Ich Schwarz und ein Ich Weiß zumindest zu versuchen, um nicht erdrückt zu werden von dem grauenhaften Nichts um mich.
What decides whether a man will become immortal, is not his character but his vitality. Nothing save intensity confers immortality. A man manifests himself more vividly, in proportion as he is strong...
How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!
Şeytani demekle kastettiğim şey, her insanın temelinde ve özünde yatan o doğuştan gelen huzursuzluktur ve bu huzursuzluk onu kendinden çıkarır, onu kendinden alıp sonsuza, asıl olana sürükler, sanki d...
There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.
La pression des nationaux-socialistes commençait peu à peu à délabrer les nerfs des milieux cléricaux et bourgeois ; ils sentaient de plus en plus l’insistance subversive de l’impatiente Allemagne, qu...
Jusqu'au dernier moment l'homme qui, doué d'une volonté prométhéenne, veut arracher à la terre son secret sentira la griffe du doute lui déchirer le cœur.
وأن بعض الناس يستلذون الاعتقاد بأنهم أقوى ممن سهل إغواؤهم، وأصفى خلقاً، وأكثر طهارةً ونقاء.
The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precede...
La gratitude rend heureux parce qu'on fait rarement l'expérience palpable, la délicatesse de sentiment fait du bien et, pour moi, être mesuré et froid, une telle exaltation signifiait quelque chose de...
Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of adults, the confession that they bear the stigma of childhood, of being small...
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
That...that was how I spent the day, just waiting, waiting, waiting...but waiting like a man running amok, senselessly, like an animal, with that headlong, direct persistance.
Se non si ha la propria terra sotto i piedi - anche questo però deve essere sperimentato per essere compreso - ci si tiene meno diritti, si perde sicurezza, si diventa diffidenti verso se stessi. Non...
Mais ta beauté est si singulière, c'est une bonté ouverte où chacun peut se servir autant que ses mains le lui permettent, elle est si grande, infiniment grande ta bonté, mais pardonne-moi- elle est i...
Holding a precious book meant to Mendel what an assignment with a woman might to another man. These moments were his platonic nights of love. Books had power over him; money never did. Great collector...