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
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...
Cartea a dovedit ce poate, și nu vedem un alt obiect mai bun pe care l-am putea crea pentru aceeași întrebuințare.
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...
Cuando hablo con Ubertino me da la impresión de que el infierno es el paraíso visto desde la otra parte. No
Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.
Für jedes komplexe Problem gibt es eine einfache Lösung, und die ist die falsche.
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...
Hitler’s one genuine obsession was the underground currents. He believed in the theory of the hollow earth, Hohlweltlehre.
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.
I stood back up and looked down at my feces. A lovely snail-shell architecture, still steaming. Borromini. My bowels must be in good shape, because everyone knows you have nothing to worry about unles...
I work for a publishing company. We deal with both lunatics and nonlunatics. After a while an editor can pick out the lunatics right away. If somebody brings up the Templars, he’s almost always a luna...
It is the logic of research and discovery that is tortuous, because it is the logic of science. Whereas the logic of knowledge needs no discovery, because it knows already.
It’s true, Benno said, smiling for the first time, his face growing almost radiant. We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
Juan XXIII y Benigno Zaccagnini hacían simplemente lo que se esperaba de ellos, y no hay razón para que hubiera que felicitarlos por eso.
La letteratura, contribuendo a formare la lingua, crea identità e comunità.
Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the word...
Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequentur. grasp the word...
Si un pastor falla, hay que separarlo de los otros pastores, pero, ¡ay si las ovejas empezaran a desconfiar de los pastores!
The book is like the wheel - once invented, it cannot be bettered.
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