Symmetry is only a property of dead things.
Monogamy was an invention of men who wished to reduce the power of women over them.
Inside, the doctor filled an eyedropper with goat milk and began to drip it into the back of the marten's throat. It filled him with immense medical satisfaction when eventually it urinated on the kne...
Dionisio arose reluctantly from his bed, went to the window to see what kind of day it was, and went to the telephone to call the police.
Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty,...
And the priest will say, ‘This is a matter of the Devil and not of God,’ and I will reply, ‘Did God not make the Devil? Is He not omniscient? How can I be blamed for what He knew would occur from the...
A todo o momento vejo coisas que gostaria que visses, gostaria que estivesses aqui para as veres com os teus próprios olhos. Procuro ver coisas para ti, e guarda-las na minha memória, e tenho a fantas...
[She] knew that it was not precisely a body that one loved. One loved the man who shone out through the eyes and used its mouth to smile and speak.
You can’t be pretty forever, you know that? But you can always be beautiful.
There was once a painter who traveled into the cordillera in order to paint an invisible picture of Christ. When he finished, the local Indians scrambled up the rocks to examine it and found that it w...
There comes a point in life where each one of us who survives begins to feel like a ghost that has forgotten to die at the right time,
There comes a point in life where each one of us who survives begins to feel like a ghost that has forgotten to die at the right time, and certainly most of us were more amusing when we were young. It...
Their trade was not life, but death. They have eaten the fruit of the tree they grew for others to eat.
The garden where you sitHas never a need of flowers,For you are the blossomsAnd only a fool or the blindWould fail to know it
That's how a woman wins a mans heart, by making him think that he amuses her.
Since I encountered death, met death on every mountain path,conversed with death in my sleep, wrestled with death in the snow, gambled at dice with death, I have come to the conclusion that death is n...
Quite often the dolphins save the lives of those who are drowning, and sometimes they dolphins make a mistake and try to save those who are not drowning at all but are really diving for turtles. That...
Mustafa Kemal drily reminds his co-conspirators that the object is not to die for the revolution, but to live for it.
Luisa pointed up at the crucifix on the wall and asked, 'Do you believe in all that?' 'I would like to,' he replied, 'but it is too difficult.' She nodded in agreement and said, 'If the person hanging...
Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms.