
“They all cheat sooner or later. You might as well have one who isn't a bore the rest of the time.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
Source: Crazy Sexy Diet (2011), Ch. 4
“They all cheat sooner or later. You might as well have one who isn't a bore the rest of the time.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
"On Parables" (1922), translation by Willa and Edwin Muir
The Complete Stories (1971)
Context: A man once said: Why such reluctance? If you only followed the parables you yourselves would become parables and with that rid of all your daily cares.
Another said: I bet that is also a parable.
The first said: You have won.
The second said: But unfortunately only in parable.
The first said: No, in reality: in parable you have lost.
“If you sit with your memories, you might as well become a plant.”
Source: On the dilemma faced by his protagonist in The Angel of History in “Rabih Alameddine: 'I think we lose something once we get accepted'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/09/rabih-alameddine-the-angel-of-history in The Guardian (2016 Oct 9)
Georgina and Richard
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
“I have also considered many scientific plans during my pushing you around in your pram!”
Ich habe auch manchen wissenschaftlichen Plan überlegt, während ich Dich im Kinderwagen spazieren schob!
Letter to his son Hans Albert Einstein (June 1918)
1910s