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capitalismo internacional es el enemigo natural del nacionalismo.

The revolutionary thing about Borges's prose is that it contains almost as many ideas as words, for his precision and concision are absolutes.

I saw Borges very few times. The first time was in Paris, when I was a journalist. I went to interview him and was so impressed I could not speak. I remember one of the questions I asked him was What do you think of politics? He gave me an answer I have always remembered. He told me it was una de las formas del tedio (one of the forms of tedium).

Estas dos preocupaciones —aprovechamiento del tema común, cuidado obsesivo de la forma— eran indisociables en el autor de Madame Bovary. Extrañamente, los discípulos cercanos y remotos harán una división de ambas actitudes y tomarán partido por una en contra de la otra.

you know the sisters were a bunch of Puseyites, all bells and smells

He would have been very upset had he known that his neighbours all considered Delilah a terrible flirt, a minx, and pitied him accordingly.

but Mrs. Battersby had become that most unsympathetic of creatures, a self-ordained martyr

The girl was about as stealthy as a semi hauling a wide load.

El motivo de mi vergüenza y de la revolución es el mismo la diferencia de clase social

What ought to make worship delightful to us is not, in the first instance, its novelty or its aesthetic beauty, but its object: God himself is delightfully wonderful, and we learn to delight in him.

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government

visiting honcho making the rounds of the wounded at the compound, stopping to ask a grunt how many times he'd been hit. The man answered, "You mean today?

If Bush's response on 9/11 was to start looking for somebody to bomb, Barack Obama sounded ready to launch some kind of global antipoverty campaign.

Mark reiterated how assiduously the FBI and his own department were now gathering evidence against him.

But grace and effort are not opposites. Grace and earning are opposites.

no real or imagined scandals seemed of such journalistic stature as to work the public into a frenzy of intolerance for one another's aberrations.

It was always difficult to maintain author integrity when the facts did not support the sensationalism required by the employers, and best not to put oneself in such a position.

Contextualization is about showing the relevance of the gospel, not making the gospel relevant. That's the essence of contextualization.

God wants his glory to shine through men. God wants his Kingdom to be made visible through them.

Shame exists where there is sin, and so feeling ashamed, particularly when we sin, is natural and healthy. Therefore, shame is not bad, but unless the underlying sin that causes the shame is properly dealt with through the gospel, then the shame will remain, with devastating implications.

The ego's instinctive favoring of itself is eroded by a sense of the infinite

Well, what was I to do? For the well-bred gentleman there was clearly only one recourse. I fucked him.

He was an American, so it seemed only fair to shoot him.

a rhetorical question. It has a question mark at the end, but you are not meant to answer it because the person who is asking it already knows the answer.