Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of Buenos Aires, aged twenty-five years, two months and...
But what do you believe? I don't just mean religion. What are you sure of?That once I was not and that now I am. That one day I shall no longer be.
But he did grievously fear old age, mortal illness and disablement. He dreaded the loss of independence, the indignities of senility, the yielding up of privacy, the abomination of pain, the glimpses...
«No hay un arte que descubra en un rostro la construcción de un alma. Fue un caballero en quien depositamos la más absoluta confianza.»
What did that matter? Despite what he had said to his aunt
The equally is a political theory, but no a practical politics.
That once I was not and that now I am. That one day I shall no longer be.
On the whole I’m glad; you can’t mourn for unborn grandchildren when there never was a hope of them. This planet is doomed anyway. Eventually the sun will explode or cool and one small insignificant p...
Nothing and no one will separate us, not life nor death, nor principalities, nor powers, nor anything that is of the heavens nor anything that is of the earth.
Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.
It was a fashionable and expensive academy but there was no loving care, and it inculcated pride and the values of the fashionable world, not sound learning and good sense.
I thought I understood his kind: the petty bureaucrats of tyranny, men who relish the carefully measured meed of power permitted to them, who need to walk in the aura of manufactured fear, to know tha...
I have no scenery to help me and no words are written for me to speak. There is no curtain. But out of the vivid dream of somebody else’s life I have to create an atmosphere—for that is advocacy.
I have enough trouble living with my own neurosis without coping with other people’s.
I can never see why people should be jealous. After all, youth isn't a matter of privilege, we all get the same share of it. Some people may be born at an easier time or be richer or more privileged t...
Darcy took the view that if family amity required him to meet people with whom he had little in common, it were best done at their expense not his.
A successful murder depends on knowing your victim,
A number of his friends whose wilfully overburdened lives inhibited the enjoyment of all but necessary pleasures somehow found time to take afternoon tea with the Ackroyds in their neat Edwardian vill...
¿Qué importa lo que fue o lo que será? Todo comienza y acaba en mí.
Physiognomy.