Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.
Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one love earthly reality and believe—with charity—that there is still room for Hope.
Translation is the art of failure.
كلُّ شيءٍ له دائمًا علاقة بكلِّ شيءٍ إذا عرف المرءُ كيف يقرأ فنجانَ القهوة
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...
The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis.
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...
Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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.
We always have to blame our failures on somebody else, and dictatorships always need an external enemy to bind their followers together. As the man said, for every complex problem there’s a simple sol...
He had perhaps seen fifty springs and was therefore already very old, but his tireless body moved with an agility I myself often lacked.
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...
Is it possible to say It was a beautiful morning at the end of November without feeling like Snoopy?
The Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt.
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...
There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.
The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. And they become all the more evil, the more you cast them out; and the more you depict them as a court of lemurs who want your ruin...
Not bad, not bad at all, Diotallevi said. To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.
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...
When a man has little time, he must take care to maintain his calm. We must act as if we had eternity before us.