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In other words, to see if through these cultural phenomena a new Middle Ages is to take shape, a time of secular mystics, more inclined to monastic withdrawal than to civic participation. We should see how much, as antidote or as antistrophe, the old techniques of reason may apply, the arts of the Trivium, logic, dialectic, rhetoric. As we suspect that anyone who goes on stubbornly practicing them will be accused of impiety.
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a complicit mustiness hung in the air, the odour of silence and calm.
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The German lives in a state of perpetual intestinal embarrassment due to an excess of beer and the pork sausages on which he gorges himself.
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Nao se pode fugir a um infinito, disse comigo, fugindo em direcao a outro infinito; nao se foge da revelacao do identico, na ilusao de que se pode encontrar o diverso.
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I felt dull and somnolent, for daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh: the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time. William
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In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.
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Chi ride e malvagio solo per chi crede in cio di cui si ride.
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I am gripped by an irresistible urge to kill myself, but I know it's the devil tempting me.
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In the past men were handsome and great (now they are children and dwarfs), but this is merely one of the many facts that demonstrate the disaster of an aging world. The young no longer want to study anything, learning is in decline, the whole world walks on its head, blind men lead others equally blind and cause them to plunge into the abyss, birds leave the nest before they can fly, the jackass plays the lyre, oxen dance. Mary no longer l..
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No importa la fe que ofrece determinado movimiento, sino la esperanza que propone
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life-lessons
hope
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Oh, what a harmony of abandonment and impulse, of unnatural and yet graceful postures, in that mystical language of limbs miraculously freed from the weight of corporeal matter, marked quantity infused with new substantial form, as if the holy band were struck by an impetuous wind, breath of life, frenzy of delight, rejoicing song of praise miraculously transformed, from the sound that it was, into image.
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The Antichrist can be born from piety itself, from excessive love of God or of the truth, as the heretic is born from the saint and the possessed from the seer. Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. Jorge
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It's hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride.
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The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey, where extraordinary things are happening under the cover of night. A spectac..
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But how does it happen," I said with admiration, "that you were able to solve the mystery of the library looking at it from the outside, and you were unable to solve it when you were inside?" "Thus God knows the world, because He conceived it in His mind, as if from the outside, before it was created, and we do not know its rule, because we live inside it, having found it already made." --
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there are two forms of magic. There is a magic that is the work of the Devil and which aims at man's downfall through artifices of which it is not licit to speak. But there is a magic that is divine, where God's knowledge is made manifest through the knowledge of man, and it serves to transform nature, and one of its ends is to prolong man's very life.
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Her ne olursa olsun, kurmaca yapitlar okumaktan vazgecmeyecegiz, cunku onlarda yasamimiza bir anlam verecek formulu aramaktayiz. Sonucta, yasamimiz suresince, bize neden dunyaya geldigimizi ve yasadigimizi soyleyecek bir ilk oykunun arayisi icindeyiz. Kimi zaman kozmik bir oyku ariyoruz, evrenin oykusunu, kimi zaman kendi bireysel oykumuzu. Kimi zaman da kendi bireysel oykumuzu evrenin oykusuyle cakistirmayi umuyoruz.
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six-walks-in-the-fictional-woods
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Pero los periodicos ?siguen las tendencias de la gente o las crean? --Ambas cosas, senorita Fresia. La gente al principio no sabe que tendencia tiene, luego nosotros se lo decimos y entonces la gente se da cuenta de que la tiene.
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There are words that give power, others that make us all the more derelict,
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Often during our journey I heard William mention "the simple," a term by which some of his brothers denoted not only the populace but, at the same time, the unlearned. This expression always seemed to me generic, because in the Italian cities I had met men of trade and artisans who were not clerics but were not unlearned, even if their knowledge was revealed through the use of the vernacular. And, for that matter, some of the tyrants who go..
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as Boethius says, nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn; and what would be the point of saying today that the abbot Abo had a stern eye and pale cheeks, when by now he and those around him are dust and their bodies have the mortal grayness of dust (only their souls, God grant, shining with a light that will never be extinguished)?
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It is certainly human to make mistakes, but there are some human beings who make more than others, and they are called fools.
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The maximum of confusion achieved with the maximum of order: it seems a sublime calculation.
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Often the object of a desire, when desire is transformed into hope, becomes more real than reality itself.
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I perdenti, come gli autodidatti, hanno sempre conoscenze piu vaste dei vincenti, se vuoi vincere devi sapere una cosa sola e non perdere tempo a saperle tutte, il piacere dell'erudizione e riservato ai perdenti.
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For architecture, among all the arts, is the one that most boldly tries to reproduce in its rhythm the order of the universe, which the ancients called "kosmos," that is to say ornate, since it is like a great animal on whom there shine the perfection and the proportion of all its members."
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the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt.
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william-of-baskerville
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The young no longer want to study anything, learning is in decline, the whole world walks on its head, blind men lead others equally blind and cause them to plunge into the abyss, birds leave the nest before they can fly, the jackass plays the lyre, oxen dance. Mary no longer loves the contemplative life and Martha no longer loves the active life, Leah is sterile, Rachel has a carnal eye, Cato visits brothels. Everything is diverted from it..
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Diotallevi and Belbo, both from Piedmont, often claimed that any good Piedmontese had the ability to listen politely, look you in the eye, and say "You think so?" in a tone of such apparent sincerity that you immediately felt his profound disapproval"
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The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.
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excessive love of God or of the truth, as the heretic is born from the saint and the possessed from the seer. Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. Jorge did
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And since I wanted you to feel as pleasurable the one thing that frightens us--namely, the metaphysical shudder--I had only to choose (from among the model plots) the most metaphysical and philosophical: the detective novel.
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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 would then chew it with an absorbed look. He kept some of it with him, and ate it in the moments of greatest tension (and we had a number of them at the abbey!).
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narcotic-herb
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Hoy en dia no nos damos cuenta que la cualidad unica de una obra de arte no hay que buscarla en una idea concebida por acto de gracia e independiente de la experiencia de la naturaleza: en el arte convergen todas nuestras experiencias vividas, elaboradas y resumidas segun los normales procesos imaginativos, salvo que lo que hace unica la obra es el en el que esta elaboracion se vuelve concreta y se ofrece a la percepcion, a traves de un p..
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estética
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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 alternative properties are not specified, we take for granted the properties that hold good in the real world.
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fiction
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The taxi driver is someone who spends all day driving in city traffic (an activity that provokes either heart attack or delirium), in constant conflict with other human drivers. Consequently, he is nervous and hates every anthropomorphic creature.
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truth-of-life
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it is always better when the person who frightens us is also afraid of us.
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Bacon was right in saying that the conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.
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Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means, a precept that the commentators of the holy books had very clearly in mind. The unicorn, as these books speak of him, embodies a moral truth, or allegorical, or analogical, but one that remains true, as the idea that chastity is a noble virtue remains true. But as for the literal truth that sus..
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the more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.
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secret
powerful
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fqdtu klWa yqyn , m `d lyqyn b'nWh ywjd dy'man wr Zhrk shkhSun yrydu khd`ak
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ارتياب
خداع
يقين
deception
paranoia
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Having reached the end of my poor sinner's life, my hair now white, I grow old as the world does, waiting to be lost in the bottomless pit of silent and deserted divinity, sharing in the light of angelic intelligences;
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waiting-for-death
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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, the Source of Command.
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The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer,
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invent
spoon
the-book-is-like-the-spoon
wheel
improvement
book
improve
invention
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