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| 3853208 | I would have liked to have warned Tony not to come around here," Bravo said. He uses the pluperfect of the subjunctive, Renzi thought. He was so tired these were the kind of thoughts that popped into his head, thoughts once typical for him, when he was in college and he used to spend his time analyzing grammatical forms and verbal conjugations. Sometimes he wouldn't understand what people were telling him because he'd get distracted analyzi.. | Ricardo Piglia | ||
| ba70f7e | To write a letter is to send a message to the future; to speak of the present with an addressee who is not there, knowing nothing about how that person is (in what spirits, with whom) while we write and, above all, later: while reading over what we have written. Correspondence is the utopian form of conversation because it annihilates the present and turns the future into the only possible place for dialogue. | utopia | Ricardo Piglia | |
| 951cb11 | Nunca la conocere del todo. Pero me necesita, me ha elegido. | despecho misterio muerte mujer mujeres odio resignacion tristeza | Ernesto Sabato | |
| e844217 | A uno siempre le interesa lo que es distinto o desconocido. | interes misterio muerte mujeres vida | Ernesto Sabato | |
| 285ee64 | una de las tragicas precariedades del espiritu, pero tambien una de sus sutilezas mas profundas, era su imposibilidad de ser sino mediante la carne. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| ffbffa3 | Como acabo de decirle, no hay que buscar coherencia en el poder diabolico, pues la coherencia es propia del conocimiento luminoso, y en particular de su maximo exponente, las matematicas. El poder demoniaco es, a mi juicio, pluralista y ambiguo. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| f6395bc | He aqui el fin del hombre renacentista. La maquina y la ciencia que habia lanzado sobre el mundo exterior, para dominarlo y conquistarlo, ahora se vuelven contra el, dominandolo y conquistandolo como a un objeto mas. Ciencia y maquina se fueron alejando hacia un olimpo matematico, dejando solo y desamparado al hombre que les habia dado vida. Triangulos y acero, logaritmos y electricidad, sinusoides y energia atomica, unidos a las formas mas.. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| c2f8d2f | La vanidad es tan fantastica, que hasta nos induce a preocuparnos de lo que pensaran de nosotros una vez muertos y enterrados. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| f08ee6b | Mientras volvia a mi casa profundamente deprimido, trataba de pensar con claridad. Mi cerebro es un hervidero, pero cuando me pongo nervioso las ideas se me suceden como en un vertiginoso ballet; a pesar de lo cual, o quiza por eso mismo, he ido acostumbrandome a gobernarlas y ordenarlas rigurosamente; de otro modo creo que no tardaria en volverme loco. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 940c8d3 | Per avere una visione nera del mondo bisogna infatti averci prima creduto. Ed e ancora piu curioso e paradossale il fatto che i pessimisti, una volta delusi, non siano costantemente e sistematicamente disperati, e che in un certo senso sembrino disposti a rinnovare la loro speranza in ogni momento, pur dissimulandosi dietro la nera apparenza di amareggiati universali, in virtu di una sorta di pudore metafisico, come se il pessimismo, per co.. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 98ac3fd | Jer, put do najintimnijeg dela naseg bica znaci dugo putovanje kroz druge ljude i svetove. Tako sam se vratio ocu. Ali, kao sto obicno biva, tada je vec bilo prekasno. Da sam onda znao da ga poslednji put vidim krepkog, da sam slutio kako cu ga dvadeset pet godina kasnije zateci pretvorenog u prljavu hrpu kostiju i iznutrica u raspadanju, kako me tuzno gleda iz dubine tih ociju koje maltene nisu vise pripadale ovom svetu, tada bih pokusao d.. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 6cc2ca3 | Mi-a laudat atat de mult tablourile, incat am inteles ca le detesta. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 5c25fe8 | Creo que la verdad esta bien en las matematicas, en la quimica, en la filosofia. No en la vida. En la vida es mas importante la ilusion, la imaginacion, el deseo, la esperanza. Ademas, ?sabemos acaso lo que es la verdad? Si yo lo digo que aquel trozo de ventana azul, digo una verdad. Pero es una verdad parcial, y por lo tanto una especie de mentira. Porque el trozo de ventana no esta solo, esta en una casa, en una cuidad, en un paisaje. Est.. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 9e6c4b7 | purtroppo la vita la facciamo solo in brutta copia. Se uno scrittore fa una pagina imperfetta puo buttarla nel cestino. La vita, no, quello che si e vissuto non c'e modo di riaggiustarlo, di pulirlo, di buttarlo via. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 28a856c | Mis dudas y mis interrogatorios fueron envolviendolo todo, como una liana que fuera enredando y ahogando los arboles de un parque en una monstruosa trama. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| e9566c8 | Bastara decir que soy Juan Pablo Castel, el pinto que mato a Maria Iribarne; supongo que el proceso esta en el recuerdo de todos y que no se necesitan mayores explicaciones sobre mi persona. (63) | suspense | Ernesto Sabato | |
| e5aaa57 | Koliko sam cesto i sam u zivotu odricao se odjednom svih stvari za kojima sam, bez razlike i za svakom zasebno, zudeo, jedino zato sto onu za kojom sam cesto slucajno prvo posao nisam mogao imati. Toliko jedna neispunjena zudnja ogorci, umori, isprazni odjednom sav duh, toliko ucini sve druge zudnje bezvrednosnim. Vreme se uvek pobrine da kasnije postavi dogadaje u odgovarajuce ravni, i stvari koje u pocetku izgledaju beznacajne kasnije otk.. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 41bad3c | Lo rememoro siempre que contemplo los payasos que pinto Rouault: esos pobres bufones que, al terminar su parte, en la soledad del carromato se quitan las lentejuelas y regresan a la opacidad de lo cotidiano, donde los ancianos sabemos que la vida es imperfecta, que las historias infantiles con Buenos y Malvados, Justicia e Injusticia, Verdad y Mentira, son finalmente nada mas que eso: inocentes suenos. La dura realidad es una desoladora con.. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 631ac83 | Pogledaj onaj osvetljeni prozor, tamo na onoj kuci - rece Alehandra i pokaza rukom. - Uvek me uzbuduju ta svetla u noci. Mozda se porada neka zena? Ili neki siromasan student cita Marksa. O, kako je svet tajanstven! Samo povrsni ljudi to ne vide. Razgovaras sa ulicnim pozornikom, steknes njegovo poverenje i za tili cas otkrijes da je i on jedna zagonetka. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 57b6b1f | Ipak, jedno dublje uverenje, mada neizreceno, navodilo ga je na pomisao da se covekovo vreme nikada ne vraca unazad, da nikada vise ne moze da bude kao sto je nekad bilo i da, kada se osecanja pogorsaju ili izmene, nama tog cuda koje ih moze vratiti u predasnje stanje: kao sto se i zastava isprlja i izlize [...]. Ali je njegova nada odolevala. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 8b61b91 | I have seen emigres with the humility typical of concentration camp survivors come to this country and happily accept anything that afforded a livelihood, the most demeaning jobs. But is it not rather strange that a man cannot be content with having escaped torture and death? As soon as he begins to enjoy his new security, the pride and vanity and arrogance that seemed to have been permanently obliterated begin to creep back, like beasts dr.. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 7ae5314 | Revolutia rusa se afla atunci inca sub stralucirea romantica a acelui Octombrie ... Cum inca nu incepuse epoca stalinismului, cu crimele sale, am simtit, cu un romantic fanatism, ca revolutia proletariatului va izbuti sa aduca oamenilor lumea pura intrezarita de stiintele matematice. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 5d083e5 | tkwn l'`ml ltly@ llrwy'y mthl lmdn lmshyd@ `l~ 'nqD sbq@, rGm 'nh jdyd@ fhy tjsd lkhlwd wtlq~ twkydh fy wjwd Hkyt ns w'Hwl 'fwl w'hw wnZrt wwjwh `y'd@ bstmrr | الخلود الناس الروائي الرواية | Ernesto Sabato | |
| 3ae0cb8 | Creamos lo que no tenemos, lo que ansiosamente necesitamos. | crear dios humanos necesidad sabato | Ernesto Sabato | |
| aa48aaa | ese afan que tienen los hombres de aferrarse a cualquier despojo de alguien que quisieron mucho, esos despojos del cuerpo y del alma que han quedado abandonados por ahi: en esa especie de destrozada e incierta inmortalidad de los retratos, de las frases que alguna vez dijeron a otros, del recuerdo de alguna expresion que alguien recuerda, o dice recordar, y hasta de esos pequenos objetos que de ese modo alcanzan un valor simbolico y desmesu.. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 20391c6 | On a tiny planet that has been racing toward oblivion for millions of years, we are born amid sorrow; we grow, we struggle, we grow ill, we suffer, we make others suffer, we cry out, we die, others die, and new beings are born to begin the senseless comedy all over again.' Was that really it? I sat pondering the idea of the absence of meaning. Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars? | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 8f444d8 | Me fascinaba -agrego Martin- como un abismo tenebroso, y si me desesperaba era precisamente porque la queria y la necesitaba. ?Como ha de desesperarnos algo que nos resulta indiferente? | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| d002522 | Groves, with his eye for sizing up people who could get things done, saw the deep ambition Oppenheimer covered with his surface charm. | impression leadership personality | Garry Wills | |
| 8604d27 | To be licensed to exist was not necessarily a license to be loved in an increasingly Christian world. | Peter R.L. Brown | ||
| d401481 | Up to 700 A.D., it was assumed that the Christian family cared for their own dead. The clergy played little role in burial and none whatsoever in the arrangement and decoration of tombs. | Peter R.L. Brown | ||
| b53f21c | At the same time, radical Pelagian tracts, such as the de divitiis--the relentlessly argued "Treatise on Riches"--had advocated the total renunciation of property by the rich.27 The author of this tract extended his plea for total renunciation to include a consequential denunciation of the existence of wealth in the first place: Tolle divitem et pauperem non invenies (Get rid of the rich and you will find no poor) was one of his many provoc.. | Peter R.L. Brown | ||
| 64ba6c0 | Arthur Schlesinger admits that JFK "succumbed to the fake omniscience of insiders". Prolonged immersion in the self-contained, self-justifying world of clandestinity and deception erodes the reality principle." | myopia | Garry Wills | |
| c088022 | God initiates the salvation of man to express the Father's love, not a punitive deflecting of the Father's anger. | Garry Wills | ||
| 86dd20c | The advantage of a permanent emergency for the executive is that even trivial things can routinely be accomplished by the crisis presidency. If everything is an emergency, all power is emergency power. | emergency leadership reaction | Garry wills | |
| 98641bf | Unfettered inquisitiveness, it is clear, teaches better than do intimidating assignments. | Garry Wills | ||
| d7fae3f | Inefficiency is to be our safeguard against despotism. | separation-of-powers us-constitution us-government | Garry Wills | |
| 0f38855 | You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the rich man is bribed; he has been bribed already. That is why he is a rich man. --GILBERT CHESTERTON | Garry Wills | ||
| 70b17fa | In his book Lincoln at Gettysburg: Words That Remade America, Garry Wills (2006) argues that it was Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address who transformed America's individualism-oriented Constitution, with all its checks and balances, into a vision of the common good. Lincoln is the de facto godfather of the common good. | Peter Block | ||
| 07e833b | Mani] deleted as interpolations all texts in the New Testament that assumed either the order and goodness of matter or the inspiration and authority of the Old Testament. Otherwise he thought his expurgated New Testament a sound book. | Henry Chadwick | ||
| f6670c6 | With my little short-shorts a permanent affront, I was quickly becoming a sullen, moody, difficult little bastard. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 7b01cce | I only drink a little, but when I do, I become a different person, and that person drinks a lot. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 00500d8 | Refugees, usually emigres and immigrants | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 9eb4b45 | Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| a66aa7e | Not giving a shit has been a very, very good business model for me. | David Blum |