Сумасшедших опознавать нетрудно. Это дураки, но без свойственных дуракам навыков и приемов. Дурак умеет доказывать свои тезисы, у него есть логика, кособокая, но логика. Сумасшедшего же логика не инте...
Бібліотеки — то неймовірна штука: часом здається, ніби стоїш на вокзальній платформі і, читаючи з книжкових сторінок про екзотичні місця, подорожуєш далекими країнами.
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...
O ella lo sedujo a él, como Eloísa sedujo a Abelardo, ¡porque no olvides que a través de la mujer penetra el diablo en el corazón de los hombres!
He would learn—truth is brief (afterward, it is all commentary). So
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 is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?
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...
True,' I said, amazed. Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or devine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spok...
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 year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven...
The year had begun with the first protests in Milan against the Austrians, where citizens had stopped smoking to damage the revenues of the imperial government (those Milanese comrades, who stood firm...
The thing whose address I lost is not the End, it’s the Beginning. Not the object to be possessed but the subject that possesses me. Misery
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.
It's hopeless, he went on. We no longer have the learning of the ancients, the age of giants is past!We are dwarfs, William admitted, but dwarfs who stand on the shoulders of those giants, and small t...
It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating ...
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 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....