«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...
So we must spell out its faithful signals even when they seem obscure to us and as if amalgamated with a will wholly bent on evil.
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.
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...
What better hiding place for the true Templar than in the crowd of his caricatures?
True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.
This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which asses fly and princesses are restored to life by a kiss, but that world, purely...
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...
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...
Oh, what a harmony of abandonment and impulse, of unnatural and yet graceful postures, in that mystical language of limbs miraculously freed from the weight of corporeal matter, marked quantity infuse...
No son las noticias las que hacen el periódico sino el periódico el que hace las noticias.
Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed.
Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.
Libraries are fascinating places; sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of traveling to distant lands.
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...
If our eye could penetrate the earth and see its interior from pole to pole, from where we stand to the antipodes, we would glimpse with horror a mass terrifyingly riddled with fissures and caverns. —...
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 would like to tell about war and friendship among the various parts of the body, the arms that do battle with the feet, and the veins that make love with the arteries, or the bones with the marrow....
I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.
Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.