I giorni solenni dell’esistenza hanno in sé una luminosità più intensa di quelli consueti.
But is it not already an insult to call chess anything so narrow as a game? Is it not also a science, an art, hovering between these categories like Muhammad's coffin between heaven and earth, a uniqu...
Sadece adayi gormekle İngiltere'yi tanimis olmazsiniz. demisti bana. En az bir kez olsun uzaklasmadiysaniz , uzerinde yasadigimiz kitayi da anlayamazsiniz. ...
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.
Od onog ondašnjeg čovjeka ja sam se, i to upravo zbog onog doživljaja, potpuno odvojio, promatram ga sa strane, sasvim mirno i hladno, i mogu ga opisati kao prijatelja o kojem znam mnogo i sve ono što...
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...
For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them up on the shelf in multicoloured rows: he watches over eac...
Art always reaches its peak where it becomes the life interest of a people.
لا ألومك؛ أحبك كما أنت: متأجّج وسريع النسيان، سخيّ وخائن؛ أحبك هكذا، لا شىء إلأ هكذا، كما كنت دائما وكما أنت الآن
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...
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 truths that he finds may in the coming months or even the coming years be truths no more. He must be forever searching. Thus is born a multitude of contradictions. Now he appears an Epicurean, now...
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...
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...
And it is only delusion, and not knowledge, that bestows happiness.
— 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