It seems to me that more plots have been imagined than really exist.
If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone...
I seal thatwhich was not to be said in the tomb that I become.
Hastalandığımda kendimi senin ellerine teslim edeyim; sana bilmediklerim dahil hakkımda her şeyi anlatayım ve sen benim ruhumun efendisi ol, ister miydin?
Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the pace; otherwise you stop right away.
Dov’è che due treni che s’incrociano non ripartono entrambi dopo essere arrivati?
Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the state (attributed to James Jesus Angleton)
But if Mother Theresa went to collect all the prizes she is awarded, the death rate in Calcutta would soar.
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn’t ask ourselves what it says but what it means, a precept that the commentators of the holy books h...
As the man said, for every complex problem there’s a simple solution, and it’s wrong.
And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.
Öyle bir an geliyor ki,insanın içinde bir şeyler kırılıyor;ne enerji ne istek kalıyor. Yaşamak gerekir diyorlar ama yaşamak son vadede intihara sürükleyen bir sorun
Writing a thesis is like writing a book, working incrementally with the professor is a communication exercise that assumes the existence of an audience,
You mean the Grail also comes into this? Belbo asked. Naturally. And I’m not the only one who says so. You are educated men; there is no need for me to go into the legend of the Grail. The Knights of...
When a spy sells something entirely new, all he needs to do is recount something you could find in any second-hand book stall.
Was this not the manifestation of the most perfect love, such as he professed to his Lady, loving from afar, renouncing the pride of domination?
Vallet wrote of something else. Stimulated in some mysterious way by what he was saying, I made that connection myself and, and as I identified the idea with the text I was underlining, I attributed i...
Unable to control destinies on earth openly because governments would resist, this mystic alliance can act only through secret societies…. These, gradually created as the need for them arises, are div...
The thesis neurosis has begun: the student abandons the thesis, returns to it, feels unfulfilled, loses focus, and uses his thesis as an alibi to avoid other challenges in his life that he is too cowa...
The walls were draped with banners covered with cabalistic signs, an abundance of owls of all kinds, scarabs and ibises, and Oriental divinities of uncertain origin. Near the rear wall was a dais, a p...