The taxi driver is someone who spends all day driving in city traffic (an activity that provokes either heart attack or delirium), in constant conflict with other human drivers. Consequently, he is ne...
The rest is just sex, copulation, the perpetuation of the vile species.
The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.
The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.
Tačiau prisiklausęs austrų daktaro kalbų apie kolumbietiškų kvaišalų naudą, galiu pasakyti, kad religija yra ir kokainas liaudžiai, nes būtent ji skatino ir tebeskatina karus, kitatikių skerdynes, tai...
Signora, there’s nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one’s own heart….
Never trust originality.
It [Foucault's Pendulum] can be very comforting for people of my generation, who ate disappointment for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
I was dozing, and the clock woke me. I didn’t hear the first few chimes distinctly, that is to say, I didn’t count them. But as soon as I decided to count I realized that there had already been three,...
E' virtù sopra la virtù dissimulare la virtù.
Do not expect too much of the end of the world. —Stanisław J. Lec, Aforyzmy. Fraszki, Kraków, Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1977, Myśli nieuczesane
All the world’s follies, he replied, turn up in publishing houses sooner or later. But the world’s follies may also contain flashes of the wisdom of the Most High, so the wise man observes folly with...
There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
—Nadie nos exige que sepamos, Adso. Hay que saber, eso es todo, aun a riesgo de equivocarse.
Все всегда рождаются не под своей звездой, и единственная возможность жить по-человечески – это ежедневно корректировать свой гороскоп.
Marginalia we were discussing today,
If you can speak of a center in a city whose tongues of land stretch through hills and lick the sea. Seen
Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.
We usually believe that the tamer is attacked by the lion and that the tamer stops his attack by raising his whip or firing a blank. Wrong: the lion was fed and sedated before it entered the cage and...
Tüm aşıklar gibi Baudlino da kibirli olmuştu.