Often the object of a desire, when desire is transformed into hope, becomes more real than reality itself.
Não se pode fugir a um infinito, disse comigo, fugindo em direção a outro infinito; não se foge da revelação do idêntico, na ilusão de que se pode encontrar o diverso.
Nor did I affirm it openly, in so many words. I did not deny it, true. Who am I to express judgments on the plots of the Evil One, especially, he added, and seemed to want to insist on this reason, in...
Mais l idéologie proclamée de Forest Lawn est la même que celle du musée Getty qui est gratuitement ouvert au public. C est l idéologie de la conservation, au Nouveau Monde, des trésors que l imprévoy...
La seule chose qu'on écrit pour soi, c'est la liste des courses. Elle sert à vous rappeler ce que vous devez acheter, et une fois vos achats accomplis, vous pouvez la jeter car elle ne sert plus à per...
La desesperada soledad de las paralelas que no se encuentran jamás
Kas tai yra meilė? Nieko nėra pasaulyje, nei žmogaus, nei velnio, nei kito dalyko, kuris man atrodytų toks pat įtartinas, kaip meilė, nes ji įsilaužia į sielą giliau nei kas kitas, ir nėra nieko kito,...
Jedes Geschöpf der Welt ist uns gleichsam ein Buch und Gemälde und Spiegel. (Every creature of the world is to us at once a book and painting and mirror.)
It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.
It seems that fictional worlds are parasitic on the real world.
In the past men were handsome and great (now they are children and dwarfs), but this is merely one of the many facts that demonstrate the disaster of an aging world. The young no longer want to study...
If a shepherd errs, he must be isolated from other shepherds, but woe unto us if the sheep begin to distrust shepherds.
I'd never understood whether the vogue for apologising is a sign of humility of impudence: you do something you shouldn't have done, then you apologise and wash your hands of it.
I seal thatwhich was not to be said in the tomb that I become.
I perdenti, come gli autodidatti, hanno sempre conoscenze più vaste dei vincenti, se vuoi vincere devi sapere una cosa sola e non perdere tempo a saperle tutte, il piacere dell’erudizione è riservato...
I moved along ancient streets, enchanted by names that sounded like songs: Rua da Agonia, Avenida dos Amores, Travessa de Chico Diabo. Our visit to Salvador took place during a period when the local g...
I felt dull and somnolent, for daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh: the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time. William
I dreamed what all losers dream, about one day writing a book that would bring me fame and fortune.
I didn't know how to define it -- hermetic skepticism? liturgical cynicism? -- this higher disbelief that led him to acknowledge the dignity of all the superstitions he scorned.
He thought he would become accustomed to the idea, not yet understanding that it is useless to become accustomed to the loss of a father, for it will never happen a second time: might as well leave th...