Quotes About Perspective

I know—it stayed in her head without becoming sound—I know what a comfortable life full of good intentions means, you can't even imagine what real misery is.

When you haven't been in the world long, it's hard to comprehend what disasters are at the origin of a sense of disaster: maybe you don't even feel the need to. Adults

Do men learn from women? Often. Do they admit it publicly? Rarely, even today.

Recuerda que estamos aquí, ahora, juntos, me dijo, lo demás es un telón de fondo y cambiará

Cada cual se organiza el recuerdo como le conviene.

futuro, a partir de cierto punto, es solo una necesidad de vivir en el pasado.

In conversations with my daughters I hear omitted words or phrases. Sometimes they get mad, they say Mama, I never said that, you're saying it, you invented it. But I invent nothing; you just have to listen—the unspoken says more than the spoken.

Yes, it's Lila who makes writing difficult. My life forces me to imagine what hers would have been if what happened to me had happened to her, what use she would have made of my luck.

Ognuno si racconta la vita come gli fa comodo».

Ognuno si organizza la memoria come gli conviene.

said to myself that maturity consisted in accepting the turn that existence had taken without getting too upset, following

Only she can say if, in fact, she has managed to insert herself into this extremely long chain of words to modify my text, to purposely supply the missing links, to unhook others without letting it show, to say of me more than I want, more than I'm able to say.

Telling the real, Jacques emphasized, is constitutionally difficult; you have to deal with the fact that the teller is always a distorting mirror.

Was für eine Verschwendung wäre es, unsere Geschichte damit zu verderben, dass wir negativen Gefühlen zu viel Raum ließen. Negative Gefühle sind unvermeidlich, es kommt aber darauf an, sie in Grenzen zu halten.‹

Für gewöhnlich neigte ich dazu, nicht dem Bedeutung beizumessen, was mir guttat, sondern dem, was ihm gefallen könnte.

get out of your mind that you can be a woman like me, all you'd succeed in being is what a woman is according to you men. You can copy me, make a portrait as precise as an artist, but my shit will always remain mine, and yours will be yours.

Maybe I'm not so ugly, I thought, maybe I can't see myself.

How foolish to think you can tell your children about yourself before they're at least fifty. To ask to be seen by them as a person and not as a function.

they say Mama, I never said that, you're saying it, you invented it. But I invent nothing; you just have to listen—the unspoken says more than the spoken.

Tal vez no sea tan fea, pensé, tal vez soy yo la que no sé verme.

el punto de contacto entre su mundo, cada vez más pequeño, y el mío, cada ve más grande.

You're not happy to be getting married?" I ventured. He looked out the window: there was lightning and thunder but still no rain. He said: "I was fine the way I was.

Il mondo è tornato al suo posto." Lei replicò sfottente: "Quale posto?

nu-mi amintesc s? fi crezut vreodat? c? viaÈ›a care ni se oferise era foarte urât?. ViaÈ›a era aÈ™a cum era si gata, creÈ™team cu obligaÈ›ia de a le-o face dificil? celorlalÈ›i înainte ca ei s? ne-o fac? dificil? nou?.