A te închipui un element necesar în ordinea universului echivalează, pentru noi, oamenii cu lecturi serioase, cu ceea ce e superstiția pentru analfabeți. Nu se schimbă lumea cu ideile. Persoanele cu p...
When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and dev...
The point is that newspapers are not there for spreading news but for covering it up. X happens, you have to report it, but it causes embarrassment for too many people, so in the same edition you add...
National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.
I say that many of these heresies, independently of the doctrines they assert, encounter success among the simple because they suggest to such people the possibility of a different life. I say that ve...
Con padre Emanuele aveva capito che si doveva infervorare per le Heroiche Imprese - e che si può spendere una vita non per combattere un gigante, ma per nominare in troppi modi un nano.
Chi ride è malvagio solo per chi crede in ciò di cui si ride.
But why, everybody asks, am I not blessed by fortune (or at least not as blessed as I would like to be)? Why have I not been favored like others who are less deserving? No one believes their misfortun...
Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.
Aspirar a algo que no tendrás jamás, ¿es ésta la agudeza del más generoso entre los deseos?
All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each s...
The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains. This risks creating six billion separate encyclopedias, which would prevent any com...
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
—Una guerra santa sigue siendo una guerra.
—Los libros no se han hecho para que creamos lo que dicen, sino para que los analicemos. Cuando cogemos un libro, no debemos preguntarnos qué dice, sino qué quiere decir,
وَ لكنّي الآن في مَحفَل الرقص و عليَّ أن أرقصَ ، حتّىٰ مِن أجل بِحارِ الجنوب ، حيثما وُجِدتْ ، حتّىٰ إنْ كانت في «لُوانو» ، فهي تكفي لفاشلٍ مثلي
There are two forms of magic. There is a magic that is the work of the Devil and which aims at man’s downfall through artifices of which it is not licit to speak. But there is a magic that is divine,...
Those whom you cannot love you should, rather, fear.
Then why do you want to know?Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.