Quotes About Perception

La lengua de las mariposas es una tronca enroscada como un muelle de reloj. Si hay una flor que la atrae, la desenrolla y la mete en el cáliz para chupar. Cuando lleváis el dedo humedecido a un tarro de azúcar, ¿a qué sentís ya el dulce en la boca como si la yema fuese la punta de la lengua? Pues así es la lengua de la mariposa.

Durante la infancia yo confundía estos parajes terrenales con los pliegues de mi propio cerebro y desde aquellos días de inocencia no me ha abandonado la idea de que la vida de los hombres no es sino un nudo de aromas que se va deshaciendo ante la muerte.

Past, present, future: where are you?

El gobierno de Fidel Castro había vetado a Univision en la isla desde hacía muchos años. Debido a que la cadena tenía su sede principal en Miami, nos percibían como parcializados y extremadamente influidos por los

Y yo no supe cómo el abandono de aquel gesto pudo despertar tanta ternura en mí, ni por qué me fue tan dulce el tibio contacto de tu piel

Para qué sirve la mujer de su casa? Reflexiones de un filósofo": Una mujer de su casa, lo que se denomina así en todo el mundo civilizado, es un producto estúpido que no sirve para nada de lo que un hombre inteligente necesita en la vida, resumía el ignoto pensador, que firmaba José Lorenzo.

Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.

lo que los occidentales llaman "arte" es eminentemente funcional; no representa, encarna.

Thus what strikes me today is less the partly illusory, subjective nature of the impression of general euphoria that I felt in that period than the certainty that it is gone forever.

The old" corresponded to a social class, a bit like "the young" does today.

the expression "beyond age" is meant simply to apply to the multiplicity of times present in each of us at every instant

We no longer have a simple relationship with our own bodies, with ourselves.

Five minutes before his death, Monsieur de La Palisse was still alive.

Time is a freedom, age a constraint. The cat, apparently, does not know this constraint.

despite the growing average life span, the age at which one becomes old depends upon one's social origin and type of occupation. The relationship to age is an expression of social inequality.

No doubt they thought that by allowing themselves to become martyrs to their nerves they were giving proof of a fine stoicism, just as by living in a continual rush they produced in their own minds an illusion of activity.

Comparez ces deux journaux quasi homonymes : The Times et Le Temps. Les intérêts, dont ils suivent, l'un et l'autre, les ordres, sont de nature semblable ; leurs publics, des deux côtés, aussi éloignés des masses populaires ; leur impartialité, également suspecte. Qui lit le premier, cependant, en saura toujours, sur le monde, tel qu'il est, infiniment plus que les abonnés du second. Même

That's why about nine out of ten people I speak to who say they have an overeating problem don't. Their problem is that they don't eat when they eat.

Hurt is anger. We feel angry because we believe that someone did not give us our due. We don't feel hurt or slighted because we are not invited to a party but because we expected to be invited; we took it for granted. "It is my due; did I not invite her to my party?

It is like casting our pearls before swine. Swine are not evil; they are simply ignorant of the worth of pearls and trample upon them unaware.

So often, the issues that we are so quick to defend or take offense at too readily are indicative of either a wounded or inflated ego.

I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized.

It's the things that aren't accepted as conventionally beautiful that I find more attractive.

Young girls need to learn that sexiness isin't about being naked.