There were men and women who appeared as fluid as ghosts, they could have been attending a burial out of curiosity, merely to recall how it had been when they were buried.
The pigs, either because of the shock of it or because they hated being possessed by demons, went wild and threw themselves over the cliff, all two thousand of them, and into the lake, where they drow...
The only miracle we can perform is to go on living, said the woman, to preserve the fragility of life from day to day, as if it were blind and did not know where to go, and perhaps it is like that, pe...
The mustiness that permeated the apartment, its whole subterranean atmosphere, was redolent of an abandoned tomb.
The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.
The day before is what we bring to the day we're actually living through, life is a matter of carrying along all those days-before just as someone might carry stones, and when we can no longer cope wi...
The church has never been asked to explain anything, our specialty, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralization of the overly curious mind through faith,
The angel told her, An honest man who committed a crime, you have no idea how many honest men have committed crimes, their crimes are countless, and contrary to popular belief these are the only crime...
That's how life is, what it gives with one hand one day, it takes away with the other.
Sözcüklere ne kadar dikkat edilse azdır, onlar da insanlar gibi bir fikirden diğerine geçiverirler.
São coisas que não se sabem explicar, como, sendo as pessoas feitas das mesmas humaníssimas matérias, esta carne, estes ossos, este sangue, esta pele e este riso, este suor e esta lágrima, vemos que s...
Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.
Somewhere in the infinite that He occupies, God advances and withdraws the pawns of the other games He plays, but it is too soon to worry about this one, all He need do for the present is allow things...
Probablemente, sólo en un mundo de ciegos serán las cosas lo que realmente son, dijo el médico. Y las personas, preguntó la chica de las gafas oscuras. Las personas también, nadie estará allí para ver...
Por um instante a morte soltou-se a si mesma, expandindo-se até às paredes, encheu o quarto todo e alongou-se como um fluido até à sala contígua, aí uma parte de si deteve-se a olhar o caderno que est...
Os momentos perfeitos, sobretudo quando raiam o sublime, têm o gravíssimo contra da sua curta duração, o que, por óbvio, dispensaria ser mencionado se não fosse a circunstância de existir uma contrari...
Os momentos não chegam nunca tarde nem cedo, chegam à hora deles, não temos de agradecer-lhes as coincidências, quando ocorram, entre o que tinham para propor e o que nós necessitávamos.
Os bons e os maus resultados dos nossos ditos e obras vão-se distribuindo, supõe-se que de uma forma bastante uniforme e equilibrada, por todos os dias do futuro, incluindo aqueles infindáveis, em que...
Onomatopoeia can be so very handy. Imagine if we’d had to provide a detailed description of someone disappearing. It would have taken us at least ten pages. Plof.
On those grim days when he felt surrounded by the vacuum of absurdity, he always felt particularly weary. He tried to blame his weariness on the daily