Sir, be proud: today you came close to a happy death; and behave in the future with the same nonchalance, knowing that the soul dies with the body. Go then to death after having savored life. We are a...
Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.
It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.
In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. This was the beginning with God and the duty of every faithful monk would be to repeat every day with chanting humility th...
In order for there to be a mirror of the world, it is necessary that the world have a form
In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro (T. Kempis)
If the idea of God is unknown in the state of nature, it must be a human invention. . . . But do not look at me as if I lacked sound principles and were not a faithful servant of my king. A true philo...
I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.
He looked around circumspectly, then introduced himself: Professor Camestres. At the question Professor of what? he made a vague gesture, as if urging us to exercise greater discretion.
He contado en varias ocasiones cómo dejé de hacer fotografías en 1960, tras una visita a distintas catedrales francesas que fotografiaba enloquecido. De regreso, me encontré con que tenía una serie de...
Für die Leute, die einen zum ersten Mal besuchen, eine imposante Bibliothek entdecken und nichts Besseres zu sagen wissen als: Haben Sie das alles gelesen?, kenne ich mehrere Antworten. Einer meiner F...
Es necesario un enemigo para darle al pueblo una esperanza. Alguien ha dicho que el patriotismo es el último refugio de los canallas: los que no tienen principios morales se suelen envolver en una ban...
Chatter then will be phatic discourse that has become an end in itself, but sports chatter is something more, a continuous phatic discourse that deceitfully passes itself off as talk of the City and i...
But Paris, all in all, isn't what it used o be, ever since that pencil sharpener, the Eiffel Tower, has been sticking up in the distance, visible from every angle.
As Clark Kent I take care of misunderstood young geniuses; as Superman I punish justly misunderstood old geniuses. I
Alchemy, however, is a chaste prostitute, who has many lovers but disappoints all and grants her favors to none. She transforms the haughty into fools, the rich into paupers, the philosophers into dol...
A thesis should take no more than three years because, if the student has failed to delimit his topic and find the necessary sources after this period, he has one of the following problems: 1. The stu...
A daily newspaper is destined to become like a weekly magazine. We'll be talking about what might happen tomorrow, with feature articles, investigative supplements, unexpected predictions...
We never cease hoping--and thus did our Judge condemn us to suffer in saecula.'Ferrante asked: 'But what is it that you hope for?'You might as well ask what you will hope for yourself. ...You will hop...
A complicit mustiness hung in the air, the odour of silence and calm.