A scarf from her dress works free and floats behind her the way memories float behind the dead.
A young woman forced to keep drunks supplied with beer and siblings with clean underwear -instead of being allowed to pursue “something higher”- stores up great reserves of vitality, a vitality never dreamed of by university students yawning over their books.
Co-incidencia significa que dos acontecimientos inesperados ocurren al mismo tiempo, que se encuentran.
If I imagine the genesis of a novelist in the form of an exemplary tale, a “myth,” that genesis looks to me like a conversion story: Saul becoming Paul; the novelist being born from the ruins of his lyrical world.
But no carnival can go on for ever.
It was as though she has found refuge inside a shell and the only sound she could hear was the sea of an inimical world.
Einmal ist keinmal. What happens but once might as well not have happened at all.
No, vertigo is something other than the fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.
Tomas lived under the hypnotic spell cast by the excruciating beauty of Tereza’s dreams.
Extremele marcheaza frontierele in spatele carora viata inceteaza, iar pasiunea extremismului, in arta si in politica, este dorinta camuflata de a muri.
Before long, unfortunately, she began to be jealous herself, and Tomas saw her jealousy not as a Nobel Prize, but as a burden, a burden he would be saddled with until not long before his death.
That’s how it is: even in the throes of death, man is always on stage. And even ‘the plainest’ of them, the least exhibitionist, because it’s not always the man himself who climbs on stage. If he doesn’t do it, someone will put him there. That is his fate as a man.
He saw the marching, shouting crowd as the image of Europe and its history. Europe was the Grand March. The march from revolution to revolution, from struggle to struggle, ever onward.
He yearned to step out of his life the way one steps out of a house into the street.
Waking up was sheer delight for him: he always showed a naive and simple amazement at the discovery that he was back on earth; he was sincerely pleased. She, on the other hand, awoke with great reluctance, with a desire to stave off the day by keeping her eyes closed.
Quien busque infinito, que cierre los ojos.
Humanity’s true moral test, its fundamental test consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.
The Greek word for “return” is nostos. Algos means “suffering.” So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.
We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.