Where my school friends saw notches on incomprehensible pages, I saw light, streets, and people. Words and the mystery of their hidden science fascinated me, and I saw in them a key with which I could...
When he noticed that the patient was awake, he smiled at him.Are you a God or the devil? the dying man once asked him.The stranger shrugged and thought about it.A bit of both, he answered at last.In p...
When a rat sneaks in, there’s no way of getting rid of it. You give it poison, and it eats it. You set up a rat trap, and it shits on it. A rat is the most difficult thing in the world to get rid of....
When I saw my friend kissing the woman he loved it occurred to me that this moment, this instant stolen from time and from God, was worth all the days of misery that had brought us to this place and t...
Welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, Daniel. I could make out about a dozen human figures scattered among the library’s corridors and platforms. Some of them turned to greet me from afar, and I...
Ve lo que los demás no ven. Su mente funciona diferente a la del resto. Donde todos ven una puerta cerrada, ella ve una llave. Donde los demás pierden la pista, ella encuentra el rastro
Usted no cree que nadie la pueda querer porque no se quiere a sí misma y piensa que nunca nadie la ha querido. Y que no se lo perdona al mundo.
Una delle prime risorse dello scrittore professionista che Isabella aveva imparato da me era l'arte e la pratica di procrastinare. Ogni veterano del mestiere sa che qualunque occupazione, dal temperar...
Un buon bugiardo sa che la menzogna più efficace è sempre una verità a cui è stato sottratto un elemento fondamentale.
To write is to rewrite, he kept reminding me. One writes for oneself, and one rewrites for others.
So what is it you're going to show me today?A number of things. In fact, what I'm going to show you is part of a story. Didn't you tell me the other day that what you like to do is read?Bea nodded, ar...
Si regala qualcosa per il piacere di farlo,non perché qualcuno lo meriti o meno
Setting aside the puppet shows, the only thing that matters is who will be ruling, who will have the keys to the cash register, and how they're going to split up other people's money among themselves....
Senti-me rodeado por milhares de páginas abandonadas, de universos e almas sem dono, que se fundiam em um oceano de escuridão enquanto o mundo que palpitava do lado de fora daquelas paredes perdia a m...
Sempre dizia que os seres humanos deixavam a vida passar como se fossem viver para sempre e que isso era a sua perdição.
Se conoce que, en las fases más avanzadas del cretinismo, la falta de ideas se compensa con el exceso de ideologías.
Quiza por eso la adoraba mas, por esa estupidez eterna de perseguir a los que nos hacen daño
Que se yo. La gente se complica la vida, como si no fuese suficientemente complicada
Poesía aparte, una religión viene a ser un código moral que se expresa mediante leyendas, mitos o cualquier tipo de artefacto literario a fin de establecer un sistema de creencias, valores y normas co...
Perhaps part of your problem is that you’ve been reading the commentators and not the people they were commenting on. A common mistake but fatal when you’re trying to learn something,