—Pero los periódicos ¿siguen las tendencias de la gente o las crean? —Ambas cosas, señorita Fresia. La gente al principio no sabe qué tendencia tiene, luego nosotros se lo decimos y entonces la gente...
İnsan olanaksız umutlar besleyerek yaşadığı sürece zaten bir kaybedendir.
Because one who knows not how to seek will never find. . . .
We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the books, at every title he discovered he let out exclamations of happiness, either...
Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, n...
The Templars realized that the secret lay not only in possessing the global map of the currents, but also in knowing the critical point, the Omphalos, the Umbilicus Telluris, the Navel of the World, t...
Porque no todas las verdades son para todos los oídos, ni todas las mentiras pueden ser reconocidas como tales por cualquier alma piadosa,
Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved f...
It has been said that narrative worlds are always little worlds, because they do not constitute a maximal and complete state of things. In this sense narrative worlds are parasitical, because, if the...
In that face, deformed by hatred of philosophy, I saw for the first time the portrait of the Antichrist, who does not come from the tribe of Judas, as his heralds have it, or from a far country. The A...
Can you call yourself a coward simply because the courage of others seems to you out of proportion to the triviality of the occasion?
Atât de mare e puterea adevărului care, precum binele, se răspândește de la sine.
Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion,...
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
…there’s nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one’s own heart...
—Sería atroz —comentó Guillermo— matar a un hombre para decir Credo in unum Deum…
Someone has mixed and shuffled the words of the Book more than was right.
To survive, you must tell stories.
To die with style, live in the Baroque.
There’s the rub. The manifesto doesn’t say; it leaves you with your mouth watering. But it was important; so important, it had to remain secret.