Quotes About Observation

Y Erdosain remiró aquel rostro casi redondo, con laxitud de paz, y en la que sólo denunciaba al hombre de acción de chispa burlona, movediza, en el fondo de los ojos, y ese movimiento de levantar una ceja más que otra al escuchar al que hablaba. Erdosain distinguió a un costado, entre el saco y la camisa de seda que usaba el Rufián, el cabo negro de un revólver. Indudablemente, en la vida, los rostros significan poca cosa.

Caminaba como antes por las calles, miraba los objetos que se exhiben en las vitrinas, y hasta me detenía sorprendido frente a ciertas ingeniosidades de la industria, mas la verdad es que estaba horriblemente solo.

With the innocence of the dead, who no longer mind being observed, the people in the photographs gazed out on the professors' barely contained enthusiasm.

People see what they want to see and what people want to see never has anything to do with the truth. People are cowards to the last breath. I'm telling you between you and me: the human being, broadly speaking, is the closest thing there is to a rat.

The only thing an intellectual can do is watch things blow up, from a safe distance, of course.

It occurred to me all of a sudden, said Amalfitano, it's a Duchamp idea, leaving a geometry book hanging exposed to the elements to see if it learns something about real life.

Si osservano per un istante, senza sorridere, come due piccoli piranha che nuotano in una camera a vuoto assoluto. Poi Jan disse: «Mi piacerebbe leggere qualcosa di tuo».

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

Ahora sé que la cercanía no existe. Siempre alguien tiene los ojos cerrados. Uno ve cuando el otro no ve. El otro ve cuando uno no ve.

Mi poema se llama "Todos sufren". No me importa que me miren.

Su lengua entró hasta la garganta Olía a cigarrillos y a comida cara. Yo olía a cigarrillos y a comida pobre, pero las dos comidas eran buenas.

That something merely happens is pointless. But that something happens and a watching eye gathers it into itself is everything.

Savage words: how one can destroy someone by simply sitting there in an armchair reading a book, not too far from him.

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck!

My silences he mistook for a lack of wit rather than a lack of any need to speak.

Now, I've had boys of my own, and I know boys aren't that way. They don't learn, or grow, or have manners when you're looking at them. But turn away, and turn back, and there they are, smarter, taller, and charming everyone but their own mothers.

If I enter the room as you are fastening your shoe, I can say, "There will be a lovely moon tonight," and then you will call it to mind. But before I call it forth for you, you have forgotten the moon. One can swiftly understand that for most moments of our lives, we have forgotten almost all of the world around us, except for what currently claims our interest.

The word of a cat is not to be relied upon.

Dying is boring, Nighteyes observed.

Claro que não sabes (...) E nem sequer queres ver o que está posto na mesa à tua frente. Homens. Se estivesse a chover sopa, estarias lá fora com um garfo.

Your wolf still looks out of your eyes. You think that if you stand perfectly still, no one will see you.

She stared at him suspiciously. 'You drank all

If I had met you for the first time tonight, I would have despised you. You put me in mind of Regal." "Did I? Well, perhaps that reflect my belief that there is something to be learned from everyone that we meet.

C'était pénible d'être témoin d'une si terrible