Posted by: Mariángeles on: February 9, 2010
Posted by: Mariángeles on: February 8, 2010
Persons who have a strong passion for music often dream of singing and composing melodies; and the ideas of some of our finest pieces are said to have been communicated to the musician in his sleep.
The philosophy of sleep, 1838
Posted by: Mariángeles on: February 7, 2010
Posted by: Mariángeles on: February 6, 2010
El hombre de perfecta edad, es de robusto corazon, es esforzado, prudente, entendido y vivo: el buen varon de perfecta edad, es trabajador, es sufrido en los trabajos; el malo es mal mandado, es atronado, y desatinado.
La muger de perfecta edad, es honrada y digna de ser reverenciada: es grave, muger de su casa, nunca reposa, vividora, y esfuérzase á trabajar; la mala es bellaca, deshonesta, mala muger, putéa, atavíase curiosamente, es desvergonzada, atrevida, borracha.
Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España, 1830
Posted by: Mariángeles on: February 5, 2010
They went to sleep talking, then half talking, voices trailing away like tendrils, sleepy voices, sleepy brains, sleepy bodies, talking, not talking, dumb.
Charles Dickens
Posted by: Mariángeles on: February 3, 2010
Posted by: Mariángeles on: February 2, 2010
Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader.
Vladimir Nabokov
Posted by: Mariángeles on: February 1, 2010
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
E. L. Doctorow
Posted by: Mariángeles on: January 31, 2010
¿No oye la voz terrible que grita por todo el horizonte y que habitualmente se llama silencio?
Georg Büchner
Posted by: Mariángeles on: January 30, 2010
Posted by: Mariángeles on: January 29, 2010
Posted by: Mariángeles on: January 28, 2010
Caitlin Thomas, on her husband Dylan: "Ours was not a love story proper; it was more of a drink story. Predominantly a drink story because, without the first-aid of drink, it could never have got onto its rocking feet.”
Posted by: Mariángeles on: January 27, 2010
L’être humain est la proie de trois maladies chroniques et inguérissables : le besoin de nourriture, le besoin de sommeil et le besoin d’égards.
Henry de Montherlant
Posted by: Mariángeles on: January 26, 2010
I want you to give me a reading list. All the great books I ought to read, but only the great ones and the hard ones. I don’t want to waste my time with small stuff. I haven’t got much time left now.
Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince