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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…
- 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…
- Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself? To what…
- we might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to…
- 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…
- The young man called the waiter and paid. Then he got up and said to the girl: 'We're going.' Where to?' The girl feigned surprise.…
- Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead…
- Every love relationship rests on an unwritten agreement unthinkingly concluded by the lovers in the first weeks of their love. They are still in a…
- To put it another way, every love relationship is based upon unwritten conventions rashly agreed upon by the lovers during the first weeks of their…
- Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would…
- ...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender…
- 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…
- Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away…
- Pick me up," is the message of a person who keeps falling. Tomas kept picking her up, patiently.
- A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.
- Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder…
- Remembering now all those farewells (fake farewells, worked-up farewells), Irena thinks: a person who messes up her goodbyes shouldn’t expect much from her re-unions.
- The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as…
- Until that time, her betrayals had filled her with excitement and joy, because they opened up new paths to new adventures of betrayal. But what…
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- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
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- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman