When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies. I reflected that this is why the simple are so called. Only the powerful always know with great clarity who their true enemies...
Traición. Y es que siempre pasa lo mismo, cuando fracasas en algo, buscas siempre alguien a quien acusar de tu incapacidad. Pero qué traición, me decía, es que no sabéis cómo se combate, pues anda que...
Omnis mundi creatura quasi liber et pictura nobis est in speculum
Ogives
In a story there is always a reader, and this reader is a fundamental ingredient not only of the process of storytelling but also of the tale itself. Today,
He would learn—truth is brief (afterward, it is all commentary). So
El individuo pasa de un consumo a otro en una especie de bulimia sin objetivo (el nuevo teléfono móvil nos ofrece poquísimas prestaciones nuevas respecto al viejo, pero el viejo tiene que ir al desgua...
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 must consider that the librarian (if not overworked or neurotic) is happy when he can demonstrate two things: the quality of his memory and erudition and the richness of his library, especially if...
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...
You live on the surface, Lia told me years later. You sometimes seem profound, but it's only because you piece a lot of surfaces together to create the impression of depth, solidity. That solidity wou...
You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in love. when you feel that need, you have to watch your step: like having drunk a philter, th...
Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.
When one has a text to question, it is irrelevant to ask the author.
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?
They say that a cat, if it falls from a window andhits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because cats live bytheir ability to smell, it can no longer recognize things. I’m a cat that hit...
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...
The simple are meat for slaughter, to be used when they are useful in causing trouble for the opposing power, and to be sacrificed when they are no longer of use.
The prince of darkness is a gentleman. —Shakespeare, King Lear, III, iv
The maximum of confusion achieved with the maximum of order: it seems a sublime calculation.