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A un hombre de espíritu no le puede suceder nada más ventajoso que el que se le excluya de la vida pública, política. Ésta arroja al pensador, al artista, fuera de su indigna órbita, una de esas que sólo se pueden dominar recurriendo a la
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“il poema di Pedro Manrique, La victoria (1573), cit. in A. Cioranesco, Un poème inconnu de don Pedro Manrique, in Mélanges Mario Roques, Paris 1982, 37-49, 46: «el tercio qu’es de Napoles famosa – le tray don Pedro illustre de Padilla [...]. El de Siçilia [...] le tray don Diego Enriquez [...]. Va don Miguel antiguo de Moncada – con gente catalana y de Valençia, don Lope con la gente de Granada».”
― Lepanto: La battaglia dei tre imperi
― Lepanto: La battaglia dei tre imperi
“Si para refrenar este deseo loco, imposible, vano, temeroso, y guarecer de un mal tan peligroso, que es darme a entender yo lo que no creo, no me aprovecha verme cual me veo, o muy aventurado o muy medroso, en tanta confusión que nunca oso fiar el mal de mí que lo poseo,”
― Obras Completas de Garcilaso de la Vega
― Obras Completas de Garcilaso de la Vega
“Ho imparato dal mio lavoro di commissario di polizia che la verità è come una moneta, ha due facce. La prima completa sempre la seconda.”
― Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore a Piazza Vittorio
― Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore a Piazza Vittorio
“En este amor no entré por desvarío, ni lo traté, como otros, con engaños, ni fue por elección de mi albedrío: desde mis tiernos y primeros años a aquella parte m’enclinó mi estrella y aquel fiero destino de mis daños.”
― Obras Completas de Garcilaso de la Vega
― Obras Completas de Garcilaso de la Vega
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed.”
― 1984
― 1984
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