Occupation: Novelist Birth: April 22, 1899 Death: July 2, 1977
Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness..
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight..
Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get….
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form..
We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless..
Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic..
Let all of life be an unfettered howl..
...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe ….
Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards..
Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's….
Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again..
Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few ….
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece..
Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades o….
Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses..
Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth..
You lose your immortality when you lose your memory..
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea..
Genius is finding the invisible link between things..
Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations..
And the rest is rust and stardust..