Lo injusta que es a veces la suerte con los artistas que sueñan con encontrar el Paraíso en este terrenal valle de lágrimas.
Ni siquiera tenía ánimos para concentrarse en la lectura.
Fue entonces cuando tuvo la idea de los espacios salvadores, la idea de que la civilización no era, no había sido nunca un movimiento, un estado de cosas general, un ambiente que abrazara al conjunto...
Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.
Resultó desconcertante para muchos lectores de La riqueza de las naciones descubrir que no es el altruismo ni la caridad, sino más bien el egoísmo, el motor del progreso:
From the cave to the skyscraper, from the club to weapons of mass destruction, from the tautological life of the tribe to the era of globalization, the fictions of literature have multiplied human exp...
Não tem maisl ugar o escritor mandarim, aquele que, como Sartre na França ou Ortega Y Gasset e Unamuno em seu tempo ou um Octavio Paz ainda entre nós, faz as vezes de guia e mestre em todas as questõe...
Well, at heart I knew she'd never be a normal woman. And I didn't want her to be one, because what I loved in her were the indomitable and unpredictable aspects of her personality
Esas gentes que se inmolan por la verdad o la justicia a menudo hacen más daño del que quieren remediar.
Y sigo pensando que, a pesar de haber vivido ya tantos veranos, aquél fue el más fabuloso de todos.
Whether religious or racial, anti-Semitism is always repugnant, one of the most destructive manifestations of human stupidity and evil. What is profoundly expressed in it is man's traditional mistrust...
I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.
If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.
It wouldn’t surprise me if in a little while they begin to worship Leopold the Second the way they worship their fetishes and hideous objects. Where
Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face is as sacred as his mother or his wife.
Aunque dicen que sólo los imbéciles son felices, confieso que me sentía feliz.
¿Has hecho bien en volver? Te arrepentirás, Urania. Desperdiciar una semana de vacaciones, tú que nunca tenías tiempo para conocer tantas ciudades, regiones, países que te hubiera gustado ver -las cor...
Fictions exist because of this fact. Because we have only one life, and our desires and fantasies demand a thousand lives. Because the abyss between what we are and what we would like to be has to be...
Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings.