I transcribe my text with no concern for timeliness. In the years when I discovered the Abbé Vallet volume, there was a widespread conviction that one should write only out of a commitment to the pres...
I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.
I gave up trying to establish where progress lay, and where revolution, or to see the plot -- as Amparo's [Brazilian] comrades expressed it -- of capitalism. How could I continue to think like a Europ...
I could write the political history of those years based on how Red Label gradually gave way to twelve-year-old Ballantine and then to single malt.
Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.
Huye, Adso, de los profetas y de los que están dispuestos a morir por la verdad, porque suelen provocar también la muerte de muchos otros, a menudo antes que la propia, y a veces en lugar de la propia...
Hitler’s one genuine obsession was the underground currents. He believed in the theory of the hollow earth, Hohlweltlehre.
Having reached the end of my poor sinner’s life, my hair now white, I grow old as the world does, waiting to be lost in the bottomless pit of silent and deserted divinity, sharing in the light of ange...
Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.
Cuando hablo con Ubertino me da la impresión de que el infierno es el paraíso visto desde la otra parte. No
Cave basilischium! The rex of serpenti, tant pleno of poison that it all shines dehors! Che dicam, il veleno, even the stink comes dehors and kills you! Poisons you...And it has black spots on his bac...
But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.
But it was the newspapers that called John XXIII the Good Pope, and the people followed suit. That’s right. Newspapers teach people how to think, Simei said. But do newspapers follow trends or create...
Born blind, he could move in that handsome luminous space (yes, he said luminous) of his church, seeing, as he said, the sun with his skin
Born as the raising to the nth power of that initial (and rational) waste that is sports recreation, sports chatter is the glorification of Waste, and therefore the maximum point of Consumption. On it...
At times this can be so. Often books speak of other books. Often a harmless book is like a seed that will blossom into a dangerous book, or it is the other way around: it is the sweet fruit of a bitte...
At the end of my patient reconstruction, I had before me a kind of lesser library, a symbol of the greater, vanished one: a library made up of fragments, quotations, unfinished sentences, amputated st...
Most of them won't have a book in the house, though, when they have to, they'll talk about the latest book that's selling millions of copies around the world. Our readers may not read books, but they...
Kaldı ki, onunla yok olup gitmeyeceksek bir kurmaca yaratmak niye?
—Cariño, buscaremos un país donde no haya secretos y todo se desarrolle a la luz del sol. Entre Centroamérica y Sudamérica hay un montón. Nada está oculto: se sabe quién pertenece al cártel de la drog...