Poetry… it consumed Sappho’s young years, it nourished Goethe’s old age. Drug, the Greeks called it, both poison and medicine.
Not that he felt any particular love for himself, but his dislike of others induced him to make the best of his own company.
No importa la fe que ofrece determinado movimiento, sino la esperanza que propone
If the eye could see the demons that people the universe, existence would be impossible. —Talmud, Berakhot, 6
I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Wo...
E nevoie de un dușman ca să-i dai poporului o speranță. Cineva a spus că patriotismul e ultimul refugiu al canaliilor: cine nu are principii morale se înfășoară de obicei într-un steag, iar bastarzii...
Agora selo o que não devia ser dito,no túmulo em que me torno.
A conversation between Adso and William -You understand, Adso, I must believe that my proposition works, because I learned it by experience; but to believe it I must assume there are universal laws. Y...
Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational raptus; or the ot...
The beauty of the cosmos derives not only from unity in variety, but also from variety in unity.
You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.
The Massalians are not dualists but monarchians, and they have dealings with the infernal powers, and in fact some texts call them Borborites, from borboros, filth, because of the unspeakable things t...
Priešas turi būti atpažįstamas ir baisus, jis turi būti tavo namuose arba prie durų slenksčio. Štai kodėl žydai. Mums juos atsiuntė Dievo apvaizda, tad, dėl Dievo, pasinaudokime jais ir melskimės, kad...
Le nouveau royaume de Jérusalem est un peu la Californie de l'époque, on peut y faire fortune.
In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.
I will not deny, however, that in the course of the journey, he sometimes stopped at the edge of a meadow, at the entrance to a forest, to gather some herb (always the same one, I believe): and he wou...
For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.
Everything is repeated, in a circle. History is a master because it teaches us that it doesn't exist. It's the permutations that matter.
Boethius says, nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn;
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your u...