You’ll come backTo me . . .It’s written in the stars, you see,you’ll come back.You’ll come back,it’s a factthat I am strong because I dobelieve in you.
You too will seek your fortune, and you must be keen in obtaining it. If here you have learned to dodge a musket ball, there you must learn to elude envy, jealousy, greed, using those same weapons to...
You have to seize Opportunity instinctively, without knowing at the time that it is the Opportunity. Is
William was deeply humiliated. I tried to comfort him; I told him that for three days he had been looking for a text in Greek and it was natural in the course of his examination for him to discard all...
When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.
When one has a text to question, it is irrelevant to ask the author.
What is the hidden influence behind the press, behind all the sub-versive movements going on around us? Are there several Powers at work? Or is there one Power, one invisible group directing all the r...
What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since it seemed to me that they were in the right, I decided to believe, as you might d...
We’ve been led astray by rationalist thought, Diotallevi said. I keep telling you.
We'll have to see, Belbo said. He rummaged in his drawer and took out some sheets of paper. Potio-section... He looked at me, saw my bewilderment. Potio-section, as everybody knows, of course, is the...
Vai via ora, mi disse in fretta, ti ho detto quello che volevi sapere. Di qui il coro degli angeli, di là la gola dell'inferno.
There's a difference between the 'moderate' overwhelm of a great bookshop and the infinite overwhelm of the Internet.
The world's a nightmare, my love. I'd like to get off, but they tell me we can't, we're on an express train.
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no...
The book is like the wheel - once invented, it cannot be bettered.
Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.
So in the library there are also books containing falsehoods. ...Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the Creator i...
Omnia mundi creaturaquasi liber et pictura nobis estin speculum.
New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't have to pursue the real thing.
Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.