From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones.
“My father and he had cemented (the verb is excessive) one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether. They used to exchange books and...”
“There are objects made up of two sense elements, one visual, the other auditorythe colour of a sunrise and the distant call of a bird. Other objects are made up of many elementsthe sun, the water a...”
“Puis il rflchit: la ralit ne concide habituellement pas avec les prvisions; avec une logique perverse, il en dduisit que prvoir un dtail circonstanciel, c'est empcher que celui-ci se ralise. Fidle ...”
“Blind to all fault, destiny can be ruthless at one's slightest distraction.”
“Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.”
“I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, a maze of mazes, a twisting, turning, ever-widening labyrinth that contained both past and future and somehow implied the stars. Absorbed in those illusory ima...”
“Circumstances will change and things will be fine, just hold on a little more”
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
“I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.”
“My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.”
“Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.”