The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the lessI value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; andas the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which ca...
I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.
Does it make sense to choose the wrong Opportunity just to convince yourself that you would have chosen the right one—had you had the Opportunity? I
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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.
استعملوا دائمًا كلمة «سيد» ، لا «دكتور» أو «حضرة» ، عبارة «سيد» أشنع سبّة في بلادنا
«Так что же, – осмелился я спросить, – вы еще далеки от решения?»«Я очень близок к решению, – ответил Вильгельм. – Только не знаю, к которому».«Значит, при решении вопросов вы не приходите к единствен...
لا أعرف شيئا ليس هناك شيئ أعلمه .و إنما بعض الأشياء يحسها المرء بقلبه , أترك قلبك يتكلم ,إسأل الوجوه و لا تستمع إلى الألسن
Die Menschen tun das Böse nie so vollständig und begeistert, wie wenn sie es aus religiöser Überzeugung tun.
Some impudent young Parisian had made a malicious reference in his presence to the latest theories suggesting a link between primitive man and lower species. Dumas replied: Yes, sir, I do indeed come...
In the years when I discoverd the Abbé Vallet volume, there was a widespread conviction that one should write only out of a commitment to the present, in order to change the world. Now, after ten year...
But evidence is not enough for those who want to live in a horror novel.
Will we be happier afterwards? Or will be have lost the freshness of those who are privileged to experience art as real life, where we enter after the trumps have been played, and we leave without kno...
Lampedusa, Bassani y Cassola. Por mi parte, hoy
We were interrupted by a girl with a strawberry birthmark on her nose; she had some papers in her hand and asked if we had signed the petition for the imprisoned Argentinean comrades. Belbo signed wit...
There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
The young no longer want to study anything, learning is in decline, the whole world walks on its head, blind men lead others equally blind and cause them to plunge into the abyss, birds leave the nest...
Machines, he said, are an effect of art, which is nature’s ape, and they reproduce not its forms but the operation itself.
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. If for a hundred and a hundred years everyone had been able freely to handle our codices, the m...
Impassioned in his gesticulation, his voice persuasive, his smile fascinating, his reasoning clear and consequential, he held his listeners fast for all the time he spoke. He
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