Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.

He read a lot, but what he read, and not just that but everything he saw, films and paintings, he translated into feeling. And this feeling, which could not immediately be expressed in words, not...

Language is something you inherit, it’s never just you doing the talking, which helps when you’re pretending.

He thought that, unlike most people, he had simply refused to let himself be brainwashed by newspapers, television, eschatologies, and philosophies into believing that “in spite of everything” this was an acceptable world simply because...

Can you imagine how incredibly quiet it was everywhere, when the gentlemen from this world” — he made a vague circular gesture towards the battalions of meditating Asians behind him — “were hatching and proclaiming...

I could have forced myself to adapt,” said Taads. “In this world the individual self is of such importance that it is allowed to become absorbed in itself and to grub around in its trivial...

Negdje oko ponoći, ovdje usred germanske zime na rubu Alpa, opet gledam,Oriona, slijepog lovca, planinskog svemirca, Posejdonova sina, najljepšeg muškarca svih vremena, zavedenog od nezasitne Eje, zore, koju je mučila nepopustljiva požuda kao kazna zbog...

>En cierta ocasión, ta vez cuarenta años atrás, en un hotel mugriento y anónimo al borde del Sahara en la frontera de Mauritania, me depertó el silencio al que se refería el anciano. Pero no...

When a memory fails to appear, it seems as though the time when it was created did not really exist, and maybe that is true. Time itself is nothing; only the experience of it is...

We are our secrets, and, if all goes well, we will take them with us to where no-one can touch them.

When Sartre says man has been thrown into the world, he is alone, there is no God, we are responsible for what we are, what we do, I say yes!”The affirmative echoed around the woods....