Al fin y al cabo, un hombre es sólo lo que ha decidido hacer o no hacer.
El cielo o el infierno están en nuestra cabeza, no en las cosas materiales que poseemos.
If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real.
Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.
407Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.
Mientras pensamos en el presente, se está convirtiendo en pasado.
Para Shen, un vestido no era un mero trozo de tela, sino una imagen llena de significados y de asociaciones.
Si le damos la vuelta al nido ni un solo huevo quedará intacto, aunque puede que las grietas no sean visibles.
«Una mujer se embellece para el hombre que sabe apreciarla».
In the final analysis, the cops work for the Party system, and private investigators work for their clients. That’s why even the term ‘PI’ is still taboo in the official media.
If you memorize three hundred Tang poems, you might be able to write a little.
Un amico in un momento nero è un amico per davvero.
Tripes, poumons, coeur de porc, etc., tout cela cuit à la vapeur avec du vin de riz.
Among them, there was a glass bowl containing live shrimp immersed in white liquor. The drunken shrimp were still jumping, though less and less energetically.
A desperately sick man will seek help from any doctor.
No son las personas las que hacen las interpretaciones sino las interpretaciones las que hacen a las personas.
My life began with you, and my future goes on with you—there’s nothing else.
Heaven or hell is in one’s mind, not in the material things one has in the world,
History is like a mirror, capable of showing what a man really is
The wind languished. The floral curtain ceased flapping. The moonlight streamed through, lighting up her face. It was a young, animated face. At that moment, it touched a string, a peg, deep inside hi...