In so much firm, pleasure-loving flesh, we cannot find the merest trace of a moral nervous system. That explains the whole enigma of Casanova's subtle genius. Lucky man that he is, he has only sensual...
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...
How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!
People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.
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...
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.
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...
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...
There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.
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...
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.
He felt a kind of bridal expectation, sweet and sensuous yet vaguely mingled with anticipatory fear of its own fulfilment, with the mysterious shiver felt when something endlessly desired suddenly com...
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
Y lentamente, de su oscuro miedo empezó a brotar algo que todavía no era felicidad, pero sí un asombro ante la diversidad de la vida.
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...
But there, war does not care for predetermination; it also destroys in fury that wich is immaterial, the hopes and expectations (from Requiem for a Hotel /Nekrolog auf ein Hotel,1918)
Arrived at an age when others had already long been married and had children and held important positions, and were obliged to produce the best that was in them with all their energy, I still regarded...
وأن بعض الناس يستلذون الاعتقاد بأنهم أقوى ممن سهل إغواؤهم، وأصفى خلقاً، وأكثر طهارةً ونقاء.
آیا ساده نیست که خود را آدم مهمی بدانی وقتی سرسوزنی به تو تحمیل نشده باشد که افرادی مثل رامبراند، بتهوون، دانته یا ناپلئون هرگز زیستهاند؟
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...