February 2012
7 posts
“Es una idea maravillosa esa de poder conocer a la misma persona diez o doce...”
– Elias Canetti, El Suplicio de las Moscas
“The problem is that religion is just a cop-out. So is community. It’s just...”
– Nick McDonnell, Twelve
“Un mundo en el cual cada cual pueda morir las veces que quiera, pero sólo por un...”
– Elías Canetti, El Suplicio de las Moscas
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
“I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.”
– Isabelle Eberhardt
“I will myself
to will my will
to will itself.”
“Tú le dices muerte
yo le llamo vida,
algunos le dicen soledad,
dentro...”
January 2012
27 posts
“No man can see over his own height. Let me explain what I mean.
You cannot see...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
“They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They...”
– Philip Larkin
“Vivo en otra casa;
a veces nos encontramos.
Siempre duermo sin ti
y siempre...”
– Cees Nooteboom
“Tal vez todos tenemos un tiempo al que llamamos el más feliz de nuestra vida....”
– Cees Nooteboom, Philip y los otros
“Naciste ya viejo, no tendrás más experiencias que los recuerdos, no te...”
– Cees Nooteboom, Philip y los otros
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Conspiracy Theory 101
It’s not a waiting game, it’s a game of poker. Lamar Smith has a royal flush and few people know it. SOPA may pass. It may not. He doesn’t care, and it doesn’t matter. The MPAA and RIAA started working on their legislative strategy to pass a new anti-piracy bill in late 2010. SOPA was designed to raise the noise. Everyone is playing right into the entertainment...
“Yo me he casado conmigo mismo. No conmigo tal como era al principio, sino con un...”
– Cees Nooteboom, Philip y los otros
“–BILD: Do you believe in God?
–Brad Pitt (smiling): “No, no, no!”
–BILD: Is...”
– http://www.bild.de/news/bild-english/news/inglourious-basterd-star-on-angelina-jolie-and-six-kids-9110388.bild.html
“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
– A.A. Milne
- The author of Winnie-the-Pooh was born on this day in 1882.
“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be...”
– George Bernard Shaw
“–¿Es usted Dios o el diablo? –le preguntó en una ocasión el moribundo. […]
–Un...”
– Carlos Ruiz Zafón, El Prisionero del Cielo
“En esta vida se perdona todo menos decir la verdad.”
– Carlos Ruiz Zafón, El Prisionero del Cielo
Slavoj Žižek: Coffee and The Representation of...
–A man ordering coffee says, "I want coffee without cream."
–The waitress replies, "I'm sorry, we've run out of cream, but I can still bring you coffee without milk."
“You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes...”
– Slavoj Žižek
“We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
– Slavoj Žižek
“Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary...”
– Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles.
“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of...”
– Jim Morrison
“Intenta por una vez ser enteramente naturaleza. Es terrible tener que pensar: no...”
– Schopenhauer
Salman Rushdie: Christopher Hitchens (Vanity Fair,... →
salmanrushdie1:
On June 8th, 2010, I was “in conversation” with Christopher Hitchens at the 92nd Street Y in New York in front of his customary sellout audience, to launch his memoir, Hitch-22. Christopher turned in a bravura performance that night, never sharper, never funnier, and afterwards at a small,…
“La conciencia puede trascender la realidad actual y descubrir una nada...”
– Rüdiger Safranski, El mal o el drama de la libertad.
“La eternidad de la infancia es muy breve […]”
– Michel Houellebecq, Las partículas elementales.
December 2011
18 posts
“Un hombre de las viñas habló, en agonía, al oído de Marcela. Antes de morir, le...”
– Eduardo Galeano, El Libro de los Abrazos, La Uva y el Vino.
“Generalmente, esa sensación de estar solo en el mundo aparece mezclada a un...”
– Ernesto Sabato, El Túnel
“Smoking cigarettes has become the only element of real freedom in my life. The...”
– Michel Houellebecq, Whatever.
“[…] you write in order to find out not so much who you are as who...”
– Bernard-Henri Lévy
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“Life would be unbearable if it were real […] Consciousness is...”
– E. M. Cioran, Tears and Saints
El Laberinto de Asterión: Christopher Hitchens... →
Ha muerto Christopher Hitchens uno de los intelectuales más influyentes de las últimas décadas. Polemista implacable. Crítico cultural lúcido y combativo. Escritor de erudición portentosa y prosa riquísima y deslumbrante. Periodista épico y comprometido con innumerables causas. Hombre…
“[…] el mal es una opción normal del ser humano, horrible pero normal,...”
– No sabemos cómo enfrentar el abismo del mal: Rüdiger Safranski
“[…] that metaphysical absurdity known as ‘flesh and blood’.”
– Fernando Pessoa
“Nos quedamos pues, cada uno entregado a sí mismo en la desolación de sentirse...”
– Fernando Pessoa
“Mother Teresa was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She...”
– Christopher Hitchens
“La forma en que lo pongo es la siguiente: si estas escribiendo sobre la historia...”
– Christopher Hitchens
