He offers what is no longer a map, but a strange projection of the entire globe from the point of view of the Pole, the mystic Pole, naturally, and therefore from the point of view of an ideal Pendulu...
He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.
For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile...
El autor debería morirse después de haber escrito su obra. Para allanarle el camino al texto.
During the day you will approach the frog several times and will utter words of worship. And you will ask it to work the miracles you wish.... Meanwhile you will cut a cross on which to sacrifice it....
Diotallevi and Belbo, both from Piedmont, often claimed that any good Piedmontese had the ability to listen politely, look you in the eye, and say You think so? in a tone of such apparent sincerity th...
Como embriagado, gozaba de la presencia de la muchacha en las cosas que veía, y, al desearla en ellas, viéndolas, mi deseo se colmaba. Y, sin embargo, en medio de tanta dicha, sentía una especie de do...
By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have to...
But you see how man is also machine, and it suffices to turn one wheel on the surface and other wheels then turn inside: the brother and the enmity are merely the reflection of the fear that each man...
But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same. Hatred has to be cultivated as a civic passion. The enemy is the friend of the people. You always want som...
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...
Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it’s real and you’re not to blame.
As a little drop of water added to a quantity of wine is completely dispersed and takes on the color and taste of wine, as red-hot iron becomes like molten fire losing its original form, as air when i...
All I know about the Jews is what my grandfather taught me. They are the most godless people, he used to say. They start off from the idea that good must happen here, not beyond the grave. Therefore,...
A civilização não chegará à perfeição enquanto a última pedra da última igreja não tiver caído sobre o último padre, e a Terra tiver sido libertada daquela escória.
It is always better when the person who frightens us is also afraid of us.
Dienos miegas yra lyg kūno nuodėmė: kuo daugiau jos esi patyręs, tuo daugiau jos trokšti, bet jautiesi nelaimingas, kartu sotus ir alkanas.
Es un hombre... extraño.-Es, o ha sido, en muchos aspectos, un gran hombre. Pero precisamente por eso es extraño. Sólo los hombres pequeños parecen normales.
إذن لماذا تريد أن تعرف؟- لأن العلم ليس فقط معرفة ما ينبغي أو ما يمكن للانسان عمله، بل وأيضًا معرفة ما هو في مقدور الانسان ولو أنه مع ذلك لا يجب عليه عمله. لذا كنت أقول اليوم للزجّاج أنه يجب على العالِ...
لا فائدة، نحن لا نملك حكمة القدامى، لقد ولى زمن الجبابرة فقال غواليالمو موافقًا: إننا أقزام، ولكننا أقزام نقف فوق أكتاف أولئك الجبابرة، ورغم صغرنا نستطيع أن نرى في بعض الأحيان أبعد منهم في الأفق .