Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
“Es perfectamente imaginable que el esplendor de la vida esté dispuesto, siempre en toda plenitud, alrededor de cada uno, pero cubierto de un velo, en las profundidades, invisible, muy lejos. Sin embargo está ahí, no hostil, no a disgusto, no sordo, viene si uno lo llama con la palabra correcta, por su nombre correcto. Es la esencia de la magia, que no crea, sino llama.”
― Diaries, 1910-1923
― Diaries, 1910-1923
“Al lector se le llenaron de pronto los ojos de lágrimas,
y una voz cariñosa le susurró al oído:
—¿Por qué lloras, si todo
en este libro es de mentira?
Y él respondió:
—Lo sé;
pero lo que yo siento es de verdad.”
― Nada grave
y una voz cariñosa le susurró al oído:
—¿Por qué lloras, si todo
en este libro es de mentira?
Y él respondió:
—Lo sé;
pero lo que yo siento es de verdad.”
― Nada grave
“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
―
―
“I am nothing.
I'll never be anything.
I couldn't want to be something.
Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.”
―
I'll never be anything.
I couldn't want to be something.
Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.”
―
“Art altogether is nothing but a survival skill, we should never lose sight of this fact, it is, time and again, just an attempt -- an attempt that seems touching even to our intellect -- to cope with this world and its revolting aspects, which, as we know, is invariably possible only by resorting to lies and falsehoods, to hyprocrisy and self-deception, Reger said. These pictures are full of lies and falsehoods and full of hypocrisy and self-deception, there is nothing else in them if we disregard their often inspired artistry. All these pictures, moreover, are an expression of man's absolute helplessness in coping with himself and with what surrounds him all his life. That is what all these pictures express, this helplessness which, on the one hand, embarasses the intellect and, on the other hand, bewilders the same intellect and moves it to tears, Reger said.”
― Old Masters: A Comedy
― Old Masters: A Comedy
nomfals’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at nomfals’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
3,209 books
|
4,958 friends
3,145 books
|
2,450 friends
495 books
|
1,819 friends
1,154 books
|
116 friends
1,061 books
|
64 friends
144 books
|
60 friends
44 books
|
1,708 friends
572 books
|
319 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, Graphic novels, Music, Poetry, Thriller, and Young-adult
Polls voted on by nomfals
Lists liked by nomfals