Quotes About Insight

A book should push the reader to confront himself and the world

Volevo scrivere storie piene di spifferi.

Io - dopo tanta fatica - non so pensare. Nemmeno Mariarosa sa: ha letto pagine e pagine e le ricombina con estro, dando spettacolo. Tutto qui. Lila invece sa. E' la sua natura. Se avesse studiato, avrebbe saputo pensare a questo modo.

Mia madre vedeva sempre il male dove con mio grande fastidio si scopriva presto o tardi che il male c'era davvero, e il suo occhio strabico pareva fatto apposta per individuare i movimenti segreti del rione.

realized that on his lips was a mute laugh that I had never seen before. It became him, the expression of a sympathetic man who wishes to show that he knows what's what.

Mas eu não invento nada, só escuto, o não dito fala mais do que o dito.

Las cosas más difíciles de contar son las que nosotros mismos no llegamos a comprender." —

André Pieyre de Mandiargues rompe una nuez: -Así es tu cerebro, Leonora. -No, el mío va mucho más lejos, perfora la bóveda celeste. Poseer un telescopio sin su otra mitad esencial, el microscopio, es un símbolo de la más negra incomprensión. La tarea del ojo derecho es ver en telescopio mientras el ojo izquierdo se asoma al microscopio.

No es secreto: son los tiempos difíciles los que traen el aprendizaje más profundo.

I guess I've spent my life listening to what wasn't being said.

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.

You'll try to reveal what should remain hidden, you'll try to incite people to learn from the past and rebel, but they will refuse to believe you. They will not listen to you…. You'll possess the truth, you already do; but it's the truth of a madman.

There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

What was it to know each other?

Youth is a clearer witness to the world.

Thy left eye sees not right.

There is nothing more blinding than having seen the light, and nothing more tiresome than sharing it.

From our myopia arose our dystopia.

Wisdom doesn't come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have.

It is difficult to reconcile oneself to the view that a single life determines our lot. We seem to come toward the end of our life just when we begin to get some insight.