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- He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.
- The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.
- There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of…
- The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted…
- Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
- Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose.
- There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
- There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that…
- Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is…
- What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it…
- Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books…
- American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations for…
- And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already…
- The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that…
- 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…
- I returned to the courtyard and saw that the sun had grown weaker. Beautiful and clear as it had been, the morning (as the day…
- But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the conquest of power."…
- Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn.
- There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
- At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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