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….
No son las noticias las que hacen el periódico sino el periódico el que hace las noticias.
It [Foucault's Pendulum] can be very comforting for people of my generation, who ate disappointment for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.
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...
I knew the earth was rotating, and I with it, and Saint-Martin-des-Champs and all Paris with me, and that together we were rotating beneath the Pendulum, whose own plane never changed direction, becau...
I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.
Do not expect too much of the end of the world. —Stanisław J. Lec, Aforyzmy. Fraszki, Kraków, Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1977, Myśli nieuczesane
Die Menschen tun das Böse nie so vollständig und begeistert, wie wenn sie es aus religiöser Überzeugung tun.
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...
Beyler, dedi, gidip şu kulübeyi ölçmenizi rica ediyorum. Tezgahın uzunluğunun 149 santimetre olduğunu göreceksiniz, yani Dünya ile Güneş arasındaki uzaklığın yüz milyarda biri. Kulübenin arka tarafını...
Aspirar a algo que no tendrás jamás, ¿es ésta la agudeza del más generoso entre los deseos?
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...
All the same, I said, when you read the prints in the snow and the evidence of the branches, you did not yet know Brunellus. In a certain sense those prints spoke of all horses, or at least all horses...
From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.
We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.
إنّ الهواتفَ الجوَّالة لا يمكنها أن تدوم ، أوّلًا ، لأنّها تكلِّف ثروة ولا يقدر عليها إلا القليلون. وَ ثانيًا ، سيكتشف الناس بعد قليل أنّه ليس من الضروري حقًّا الاتصال بكلّ الناس وَ في كلّ وقت ، و سيف...
Все всегда рождаются не под своей звездой, и единственная возможность жить по-человечески – это ежедневно корректировать свой гороскоп.
Todo ideales y nada de ideas.
Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus