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- But deep down she said to herself, Franz maybe strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people he lives with,…
- There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments…
- This was exactly what the girl had most dreaded all her life and had scrupulously avoided until now: lovemaking without emotion or love. She knew…
- Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we…
- For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye…
- But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?
- The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the…
- Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes of Central Europe are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: The criminal regimes were…
- We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later…
- Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of the…
- 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…
- Only the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware of…
- Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are…
- We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we've gained from the previous one. We leave…
- He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely…
- Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given…
- But was it love? The feeling of wanting to die beside her was clearly exaggerated: he had seen her only once before in his life!…
- Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but…
- But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.
- Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?
- Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.
- The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm…
- and she realized that she (her soul) was not at all involved, only her body, her body alone. The body that had betrayed her and…
- Man can only be certain about the present moment. But is that quite true either? Can he really know the present? Is he in a…
- It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which…
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