Had gone to heaven. Enoch was translated and Elijah was taken up. One could ascend a ladder (Jesus had told Nathanael that he would see angels ascending and descending on the Son of Man, and Jacob beh...

Group of Steiners and Liesel walked past some shop windows and the imposing town hall, which in later years would be chopped off at the knees and buried.

Globalization. Only one era in history remotely resembles our own in terms of the degree of international economic and social integration, and that is the period from around 1875 to 1914. World trade...

For they have no conception how a rational creature can be compelled, but only advised, or exhorted; because no person can disobey reason, without giving up his claim to be a rational creature.

Fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset. And that harpoon—so like a corkscrew now—was flung

Feel like the bright past is coming through the gray present and I want to look at it one more time.

Existence itself is a long enough journey, without adding to the burden

Even a fraction of a second, we have the opportunity to choose, and to turn the course of our action either toward the attainment of truth or away from it. Each instant is utterly critical to the whol...

El secreto de la existencia humana no consiste sólo en poseer la vida, sino también en tener un motivo para vivir. El hombre que no tenga una idea clara de la finalidad de la vida, preferirá renunciar...

Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.

Death by drowning, death by snakebite ... death by memory loss, death by claymore ... death by paper cuts, death by whoreknife, death by poker game ... death by authority, death by isolation, death by...

Conversion is the creation of new desires, not just new duties; new delights, not just new deeds; new treasures, not just new tasks.

Cazuela,

Board, and as the law of energy balance dictates, you’ll still lose weight. But if you hold the protein steady, or even increase the protein, it’s more likely that all the weight you lose will be fat....

Believe him when he tells you you are beautifulit will only hurt you both not to(it is true besides)

Asked Paul to help him put it out on the

Anyone who survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life.

And the water and the grass and the white ripples on grey water, and white clouds among grey clouds and the wrinkled young silver skin of the water and life-bright lichens on black branches and on the...

And sleeping put an end to summer, 1928,

And I told myself -- as I've told myself before -- that the body shuts down then the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn't slip away....