Perhaps Bernarda was right after all, and in this lousy world, sometimes, some things did end the way they should.
People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren’t already complicated enough.
People talk too much. Humans aren’t descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
París es la única ciudad del mundo donde morirse de hambre todavía es considerado un arte.
Our body begins to destroy itself from the moment it is born. We are fragile. We’re creatures of passage. All that is left of us are our actions, the good or the evil we do to our fellow humans.
One has to make one's own mistakes, not other people's. Do what you have to do and come back soon. Or whenever you can.
Odiar de veras es un talento que se aprende con los años. Me
O dinheiro não compra a felicidade, costumava dizer Kolvenik, mas compra todo o resto.
Nobody succeeds without failing first.
No es pot entendre res de la vida fins que un no entén la mort.
Nikad nikome nemoj vjerovati, Daniele, posebice ne onima kojima se diviš. Oni će ti prvi zabiti nož u leđa.
Nada me había dicho de aquel extraño tembleque de manos que convertía cada botón, cada cremallera, en tarea de titanes. Nada me había dicho de aquel embrujo de piel pálida y temblorosa, de aquel prime...
Lo que hace falta en el mundo es más gente mala de verdad y menos cazurros limítrofes.
Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don't stop at your station.
Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That’s the intrinsic blueprint for our ‘ethical behavior,’ he argued. It’s pure biology.
Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption and gossip.
Leandro’s thesis was that after a particular point in a man’s life, his future is invariably in his past.
Las certezas reconfortan, pero sólo se aprende dudando.
I’m not sure whether to thank you or report you to the police, he said at last.
I’m not sure whether to thank you or report you to the police,