When one has a text to question, it is irrelevant to ask the author.
Wherever you put it, Foucault’s Pendulum swings from a motionless point while the earth rotates beneath it. Every point of the universe is a fixed point: all you have to do is hang the Pendulum from i...
With Germans, as with women, you never get to the point.
Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.
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...
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 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 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're innocent, Casaubon. You ran away instead of throwing stones, you got your degree, you didn't shoot anybody. Yet a few years ago I felt you, too, were blackmailing me. Nothing personal, just gen...
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.
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...
Esa desproporción monstruosa entre el enanismo de su complexión y la dimensión
He would learn—truth is brief (afterward, it is all commentary). So
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,
Ogives
Omnis mundi creatura quasi liber et pictura nobis est in speculum
Se trata de un consumismo que no tiende a la posesión de objetos de deseo con los que contentarse, sino que inmediatamente los vuelve obsoletos, y el individuo pasa de un consumo a otro en una especie...
Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus
Three fingers hold the pen, but the whole body works.
Todo ideales y nada de ideas.
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