As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.
Every second that passes is like a door that opens to allow in what has not yet happened, what we call the future, but, to challenge the contradictory nature of what we have just said, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the future is just an immense void, that the future is just the time on which the eternal present feeds.
Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in the yard, one by one, embracing them and crying because he knew he wouldn't see them again. To truly appreciate life we must remember that nothing lasts for ever and take nothing we enjoy for granted. In so doing we stay grateful and happy for all our good fortune.
That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us.
Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?
we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations.
The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.
A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.
Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.
Earthenware is like people, it needs to be well treated.
The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.
Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.
Today's bread does not eliminate yesterday's hunger, much less that of tomorrow.
We are finally living in Plato's cave, if we consider how those who were imprisoned within the cave - who could do nothing but watch those shadows passing on the back wall - were convinced that those shadows were their one and only reality. I see a profound similarity to all this in the epoch we're now living in. We no longer live simply through images: we live through images that don't even exist, which are the result not of physical projection but of pure virtuality.
If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.
There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.
Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.
We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.
A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.
Creating is always so much more stimulating than destroying.
One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.
When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf?
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife.
just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution.
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