He was, like everyone of a strongly erotic disposition, twice as good, twice as much himself when he knew that women liked him, just as many actors find their most ardent vein when they sense that the...
Celui qui n'est pas passionné devient tout au plus un pédagogue; c'est toujours par l'intérieur qu'il faut aller aux choses, toujours, toujours en partant de la passion.
Art always reaches its peak where it becomes the life interest of a people.
И щом дигнах взор над димящата кула на комина и призрачно блестящите дървени опори на платната, в очите ми из един път нахлу вълшебен зрак. Небето лъчезареше. То беше тъмно в сравнение със звездите, к...
She was never to be allowed to exchange a word with him; and that she was forbidden to pay him a visit even when he was ailing. He was quarantined from her as if she had been suffering from the plague...
There’s an inherent limit to the stress that any material can bear. Water has its boiling point, metals their melting points. The elements of the spirit behave the same way. Happiness can reach a pitc...
The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent.
Persistently trying to hoodwink one another, the Emperor, the kings, the princes, and the revolutionaries created an atmosphere of general distrust (like that which poisons the world today); and, in t...
Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.
Jamás!» grita indignado. Pero ya sabemos por la Historia que ese «jamás» de los reyes, de los políticos y de los generales suele casi siempre ser el preludio de una capitulación. ¿No
I realized that there was no point in denying oneself a pleasure because it was denied another, in refusing to allow oneself to be happy because someone else was unhappy.
I am not one to compare long melodies as did Mozart. I can’t get beyond short themes. But what I can do, is to utilize such a theme, paraphrase it and extract everything that is in it, and I don’t thi...
El que hace una concesión no puede ya detenerse.
…да оставят инстинктите на кръвта от памтивека да се навилнеят. Може би тези тъмни сили имаха също свой дял в дивото опиянение, в което се смесваше всичко – радостта от саможертвата, шеметната забрава...
— üzerimdeki okul kıyafetleriyle yerimden doğruldum ve sana geldim. Gelmedim; kasılmış bacaklarım, titreyen eklemlerimle kapına mıknatısla çekildim.
— senden başka hiçbir şey düşünemiyordum, seni görmek, seni bir kez daha görmek ve sana sarılmak istiyordum. Bütün gece, bütün o korkunç gece boyunca seni bekledim sevgilim.
لقد كشف انذاك عن سره الاكبر اى التركيز التام اللائق بالفنان وبالعالم والحكيم الحق والمجنون بالكامل فتلك التراجيديا الناجمة عن السعادة والبؤس معا هى مايجعل الانساس ممسوسا
لا ألومك؛ أحبك كما أنت: متأجّج وسريع النسيان، سخيّ وخائن؛ أحبك هكذا، لا شىء إلأ هكذا، كما كنت دائما وكما أنت الآن
از آنجا که ذرهای از ارزشهای دیگری به غیر از شطرنج و پول خبر ندارد، او تمام دلایل لازم برای این که از خودش راضی باشد را دارد
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