Cafeteras Electricas Quotes & Sayings

This love of theirs, with its reassuring domesticity and its easy silences, its permanence, has yoked Sally directly to the machinery of mortality itself. Now there is a loss beyond imagining. — Michael Cunningham

By 1939 the Gulag was the largest employer in Europe. — Norman Davies

Simplify what you see until it's only bones, essence, soul. That's the only way to understand what something really is. — Leah Raeder

I remember everything but forgive anyway. — Erica Jong

The expression "from above" is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action - we call it intuition. — Sri Aurobindo

We are supposed to do our fallible, failing best to perceive the other bad people as kin. — Francis Spufford

[The humanities] invite - they compel - us to confront the truth about ourselves and help us to inhabit with greater understanding the disjointed condition of longing and defeat that defines the human condition. Achilles' reflections on honor and memory and the fleeting beauty of youth; Shakespeare's defense of love against the powers of "sluttish time" Kant's struggle to put our knowledge of certain things on an unchallengeable foundation so as to place the knowledge of others forever beyond reach; Caravaggio's painting of the sacrifice of Isaac, which depicts a confusion of loves that defeats all understanding; and so on endlessly through the armory of humanistic works: the subject is always the same. The subject is always man, whose nature it is to yearn to be more than he is. — Charles Murray

This is how I know blood is meaningless family connections are a lot like old gum -you don't have to keep chewing. You can always spit it out and stick it under the table. You can walk away. — Nova Ren Suma

The mind is like a parachute. In order to function, it first has to open. — Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar