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- We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't…
- No episode is a priori condemned to remain an episode forever, for every event, no matter how trivial, conceals within itself the possibility of sooner…
- Aesthetic racism is almost always a sign of inexperience. Those who have not made their way far enough into the world of amorous delights judge…
- Her kitsch was the image of home, all peace, quiet, and harmony, and ruled by a loving mother and a wise father. It was an…
- How did the senator know that children meant happiness? Could he see into their souls? What if the moment they were out of sight, three…
- At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which…
- The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is essential in a…
- Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into…
- Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying.
- From tender youth we are told by father and teacher that betrayal is the most heinous offence imaginable. But what is betrayal?Â…Betrayal means breaking ranks…
- The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes…
- The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human species has good…
- For everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is…
- [Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of…
- The day after his father left, Franz and his mother went into town together, and as they left home Franz noticed that her shoes did…
- The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so…
- This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to agree, but only…
- His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner…
- Leroy interrupted Chantal's fantasies: "Freedom? As you live our your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your…
- When a private talk over a bottle of wine is broadcast on the radio, what can it mean but that the world is turning into…
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