13 quotes found
“A man is responsible for his ignorance.”
“The man raised his glass, 'To you!'Can't you think of a wittier t”
“Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.”
“So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game.”
“Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.”
“She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.”
“Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship? I guarantee that friendship is not a bit less fickle than love and it is ...”
“Those who had fought for what they called the revolution maintained a great pride: the pride of being on the correct side of the front lines. Ten or twelve years later (around the time of our story...”
“It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made.”
“As she uttered the words of the prayer, she glanced up at him as if he were God Himself. He watched her with growing pleasure. In front of him was kneeling the directress, being humiliated by a sub...”
“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 she said, 'You're very good at lying.''Do I look like a liar?''You look like...”
“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 when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past...”
“Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.”