I should be at peace. I have understood. Don't some say that peace comes when you understand? I have understood. I should be at peace. Who said that peace derives from the contemplation of order, orde...
I know nothing. There is nothing that I know. But the heart senses certain things. Let your heart speak, question faces, do not listen to tongues.
I didn’t like being his dear friend, but I went on listening to him. Giulio/Giulia,
Hoy en día no nos damos cuenta que la cualidad única de una obra de arte no hay que buscarla en una idea concebida por acto de gracia e independiente de la experiencia de la naturaleza: en el arte con...
How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!
Here, on the one hand, nobody respects silence any more. On the other, it is respected too much. Here, instead of talking or remaining silent, we should act.
Hastalandığımda kendimi senin ellerine teslim edeyim; sana bilmediklerim dahil hakkımda her şeyi anlatayım ve sen benim ruhumun efendisi ol, ister miydin?
Gustaba a napolitanos y sicilianos, mestizos también ellos, no por error de una madre pelleja sino por historia de generaciones, nacidos de cruces de levantinos desleales, árabes sudorientos y ostrogo...
From the story he told me, I pictured him among those bands of vagrants that in the years that followed I saw more and more often roaming about Europe: false monks, charlatans, swindlers, cheats, tram...
From shit, thus, I extract pure Shinola
For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines -- some of which, alas, you can see also in this Siege -- I construct Aristotelian Machines, that all...
For two years I have refused to answer idle questions on the order of Is your novel an open work or not? How should I know? That is your business, not mine. Or With which of your characters do you ide...
For three things concur in creating beauty: first of all integrity or perfection, and for this reason we consider ugly all incomplete things; then proper proportion or consonance; and finally clarity...
For the male who dominates and writes, or by writing dominates, the woman has always been portrayed with hostility from the earliest times. Let us not be deceived by angelic descriptions of women. On...
For architecture, among all the arts, is the one that most boldly tries to reproduce in its rhythm the order of the universe, which the ancients called kosmos, that is to say ornate, since it is like...
Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats. Talking outside the glass when...
Es un círculo diabólico en el que el contestatario potencia aquello que cree destruir.
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.
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.
Duro oficio el del inquisidor, tiene que golpear a los más débiles, y cuando mayor es su debilidad.