The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis.
And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?
You must not worry if they do not yet exist, because that does not mean they will not exist later. And I say to you that God wishes them to be, and certainly they already are in His mind, even if my f...
Is it possible to say It was a beautiful morning at the end of November without feeling like Snoopy?
In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle ag...
Dissimulation is not fraud. It is an effort not to show things as they are. And it is a difficult effort: when we excel, others must not recognize our excellence. If someone were to become famous for...
Sono entrato nella vita sapendo che la legge è di uscirne. Come aveva detto Saint-Savin, si impersona la propria parte, chi più a lungo, chi più in fretta, e si esce di scena. Me ne sono visti molti p...
Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in...
Translation is the art of failure.
L'essere umano è davvero una creatura straordinaria. Ha scoperto il fuoco, edificato città, scritto magnifiche poesie, dato interpretazioni del mondo, inventato mitologie etc... Ma allo stesso tempo n...
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
He had perhaps seen fifty springs and was therefore already very old, but his tireless body moved with an agility I myself often lacked.
But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.
The devil is not the prince of matter; the devil is the arrogance of spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in mov...
So, Colonna, please demonstrate to our friends how it's possible to respect, or appear to respect, one fundamental principle of democratic journalism, which is separating fact from opinion. ...''Simpl...
There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.
Not bad, not bad at all, Diotallevi said. To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.
You cannot change the world with ideas. People with few ideas are less likely to make mistakes; they follow what everyone else does and are no trouble to anyone; they're successful, make money, find g...
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