15 quotes found
“If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse.”
“Thats writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesnt turn up.”
“Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative.”
“People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.”
“Most of didnt know how truly good or truly bad we were, and most of us would never be sufficiently tested to find out.”
“Es dificilsimo que hasta los ms bondadosos, los que ms te quieren, se tomen tus intereses verdaderamente en serio, porque suelen aconsejarte desde una vida ms segura y ms aislada que la tuya, en la...”
“The Cunning Little Vixen, in which a fox is caught by a hunter and kept in a farmyard with the other animals. He keeps her because he loves her, despite the fact she is destructive, and there is a ...”
“I can see us there still," he said, "for those were moments so intense that in a way we will be living them always, while other things are completely forgotten. Yet there is no particular story att...”
“At times, Melete continued, it had seemed to her that this fact was what had created this behavior. Her sense of reality, in other words, had created something outside itself that mocked and hated ...”
“I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as though it were a thread fastened to my chest. It was an impulse I knew well, and I ...”
“This anti-description, for want of a better way of putting it, had made something clear to her by a reverse kind of exposition: while he talked she began to see herself as a shape, an outline, with...”
“She scraped her spoon around the bottom of the honey jar. She was aware, she said, that this was also a cultural malaise, but it had invaded her inner world to the extent that she felt herself summ...”
“Let's just say that drama became something very real to me that day, she said. It ceased to be theoretical, was no longer an internal structure in which she could hide and look out on the wold. In ...”
“I would like, she resumed, to see the world more innocently again, more impersonally, but I have no idea how to achieve this, other than by going somewhere completely unknown where I have no identi...”
“Yet I believe, as I say, that it was precisely this underhand act that gave birth to her vitriol, for people are at their least forgiving when they themselves have been underhand, as though they wo...”
