Status Updates From Abel Sánchez and Other Stories

“You can’t imagine what profound misery of a moral sort there is in the attempt, which so many people make, to confine everybody to a specialty. For my part, I find a tremendous advantage in living ‘from’ one activity and ‘for’ another…”

“In their walks, in their games, in their mutual friendships it was Joaquin, the more willful of the two, who seemed to initiate and dominate everything. Still, Abel, who appeared always to yield, always did as he pleased. The truth was that he found not obeying more important than commanding. The two almost never quarreled.”

It’s giving Crime & Punishment

It Is Time