Irony is Fate’s most common figure of speech.

It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery...

Ripe for romance? Is that not only the self-conscious and sensitive young man’s way of saying he was heavy with passion? Is not, perhaps, romance only the fiction by means of which the tender-minded negotiate...

And he recalled the ancient adage: Who must do the harsh things? He who can.

Niko? I have decided to christen this little pool Le Cagot’s Soul.””Oh?””Yes. Because it is clear and pure and lucid.””And treacherous and dangerous?””You know, Niko, I begin to suspect that you are a man of...

Başyardımcı içine dolgun bir soluk çekerken gözleri parıldıyordu. Parmak uçlarını birbirine sürttü. İşte bu seferki, sanat gerektiren bir görevdi. Aşk, sevgi, dostluk, güven… böyle kaypak kavramlar kazık gibi metodlarla öğrenilecek şeyler değildi. Hiçbir bilgisayar, hatta...

It’s not Americans I find annoying; it’s Americanism: a social disease of the postindustrial world that must inevitably infect each of the mercantile nations in turn, and is called ‘American’ only because your nation is...

Your scorn for mediocrity blinds you to its vast primitive power. You stand in the glare of your own brilliance, unable to see into the dim corners of the room, to dilate your eyes and...