Quotes About Ambiguity

As metáfora são a maneira de nos perdermos nas aparências ou de ficarmos imóveis no mar das aparências. Nesse sentido, uma metáfora é como um salva-vidas. E não se deve esquecer que há salva-vidas que boiam e salva-vidas que vão direto para o fundo. É bom nunca esquecer isso.

This story is very simple, although it could have been very complicated. Also, it's incomplete, because stories like this don't have an ending.

Quiere decir que cree que Kelly está muerta?, le grité. Más o menos, dijo sin perder un ápice de compostura. ¿Cómo que más o menos?, grité. O se está muerto o no se está muerto, chingados! En México uno puede estar más o menos muerto, me contestó muy seriamente.

As far as Aricimboldi was concerned, Isou was a 'Romanian fuck-stick.

Una pelea? -Dije - No, un duelo - Dijo Belano. ¿Y quien ganó? No sé si yo lo maté a él o él me mató a mí -Dijo Belano.

Jim liked dark women, apparently, history's secret women, he would say, without elaborating. As for me, I liked blondes.

Te has enamorado de mí? -dijo Rosa con una naturalidad desarmante. -Puede ser -dijo Fate.

La casa de Maciste era una promesa y una enfermedad y yo daba vueltas por la promesa y la enfermedad.

Una persona te acaricia, te hace bromas, es dulce contigo y luego nunca más te vuelve a hablar. ¿A qué te refieres, a la Tercera Guerra? La desconocida te ama y luego reconoce la situación matadero. Te besa y luego te dice que la vida consiste precisamente en seguir adelante, en asimilar los alimentos y buscar otros.

Una risa que me empujaba a salir huyendo de su lado y que al mismo tiempo me proporcionaba la certeza de que no existía ningún lugar adonde pudiera huir.

A medio hacer, ni crudos ni cocidos, bipolares capaces de cabalgar el huracán.

His name is Inaki Echevarne, we had a duel. A fight? I said. No, a duel. And who won? I don't know which of us killed the other, said Belano. Fantastic! I said. Yes, he said.

El problema con la literatura, como con la vida, dice don Crispín, es que al final uno siempre termina volviéndose un cabrón.

23 de diciembre Hoy no pasó nada. Y si pasó es mejor callarlo, pues no lo entendí.

Midlife is the time when we become most capable of managing the ambiguities and polarities of life. We come to terms with the fact that the world doesn't always make send and usually can't be controlled.

Not prepared to recognize where, when, or what he is living, the Australian consciously and subconsciously directs his artificial environment to be uncommitted, tentative, temporary, a nondescript economic-functionalist background on which he can hang the features which for the moment appeal to his wandering, restless eye.

Mathematics, after all, lives on unambiguous exactitude, whereas there are types of art that die of it.

Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.

Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us; at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.

I do not know whom I wish to win; until I do, I will let no player be eliminated.

I don't know" "When a man says that, it usually means, "No, I won't but from time to time, I'll toy with the idea, so I can pretend i eventually intend to do it.

None of us ever know what we are choosing when we choose life. If certainty is so important to you, than you should have chosen to be dead. That is a certain thing.

But you don't know what will happen.' 'No. That is our curse. To know that something will happen, and only after it is over, to look back and say, "Oh, that is what that meant. If only I'd known". It can break your heart.

He lives day-to-day now, just as we do, fumbling forward down the path to the future.