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...
Art always reaches its peak where it becomes the life interest of a people.
— üzerimdeki okul kıyafetleriyle yerimden doğruldum ve sana geldim. Gelmedim; kasılmış bacaklarım, titreyen eklemlerimle kapına mıknatısla çekildim.
تلك النكبة التي رافقتني طوال حياتي وسوف ترافقني في مماتي أن أظل نكرة
Şimdi bile onları gözyaşı dökmeden düşünemiyorum ama artık gözlerimde yaş da kalmadı.
İnsanların arasında yalnız olmaktan daha korkunç bir şey yoktur.
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...
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.
Sadece adayi gormekle İngiltere'yi tanimis olmazsiniz. demisti bana. En az bir kez olsun uzaklasmadiysaniz , uzerinde yasadigimiz kitayi da anlayamazsiniz. ...
Roth, non si inasprisca, abbiamo bisogno di lei,
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.
It’s not your fault. But whose fault is it? Why are we always the ones who suffer? We didn’t do anything, we didn’t do anything to anyone, but every step we take is a trap.
I had learned and written too much history not to know that the great masses always and at once respond to the force of gravity in the direction of the powers that be. I knew that the same voices whic...
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...
Es gibt eben zweierlei Mitleid. Das eine, das schwachmütige und sentimentale, das eigentlich nur Ungeduld des Herzens ist, sich möglichst schnell freizumachen von der peinlichen Ergriffenheit vor eine...
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
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...
The beauty of the creative gesture is wild, unwilling and painful.
Happiness would prevail where trees were planted.