God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves.
Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.
Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.
Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.
Why did we become blind, I don't know, perhaps one day we'll find out, Do you want me to tell you what I think, Yes, do, I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.
... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.
doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time
The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.
It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life.
...sometimes we ask ourselves why happiness took so long to arrive, why it didn't come sooner, but appears suddenly, as now, when we've given up hope of it ever arriving, it's likely then that we won't know what to do, and rather than it being a question of choosing between laughter and tears, we will be filled by a secret anxiety to which we might not know how to respond at all.
There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.
when you are old and realize that time is running out, you start imagining that you have the cure for all the ills of the world in your hand, and get frustrated because no one pays you any attention.
In matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.
Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature.
But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.
Reading is probably another way of being in a place.
Death is the inventor of God.
It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.
The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.
all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened.
I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.
...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing.
Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.
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