The assassination of Allende quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Bohemia, the bloody massacre in Bangladesh caused Allende to be forgotten, the din of war in the Sinai Desert dr...
When we study, discuss, analyze a reality, we analyze it as it appears in our mind, in our memory. We know reality only in the past tense. We do not know it as it is in the present, in the moment when...
No esta obsesionado por las mujeres, esta obsesionado por lo que hay en cada una de ellas de inimaginable, esta obsesionado por esa millonésima diferencial que distingue a una mujer de las demás mujer...
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.
For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred...
Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.
Spontaneously, without any theological training, I, a child, grasped the incompatibility of God and shit and thus came to question the basic thesis of Christian anthropology, namely that man was creat...
It takes so little, so infinitely little, for someone to find himself on the other side of the border, where everything - love, convictions, faith, history - no longer has meaning. The whole mystery o...
Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.This is the obscenity of war: the intimacy of mutually shed blood, the lascivious proximity of two soldiers who, eye to eye, bayonet each other...
But I can cite ten other reasons for not being a father.First of all, I don't like motherhood, said Jakub, and he broke off pensively. Our century has already unmasked all myths. Childhood has long ce...
And think about the precise meaning of that term: a Narcissus is not proud. A proud man has disdain for other people, he undervalues them. The Narcissus overvalues them, because in every person's eyes...
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence
The Greek word for return is nostos. Algos means suffering. So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.
Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.
It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. He is drunk w...
I came to realize that there was no power capable of changing the image of my person lodged somewhere in the supreme court of human destinies; that this image (even though it bore no resemblance to me...