“I have been told,” said the count, “that you do not always yourselves understand the signals you repeat.” “That is true, sir, and that is what I like best,” said t...
Mind of man knows full well And yet performs evil acts; How odd is it that, while holding A lamp he falls into the well. Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh ‘scripture’. There is a Guru Granth Sa...
Lake District 9, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. I‘ve just said that I shall miss Welsh hills and rivers, but the lakes and mountains of the Lake District match the place of Wales in...
Caernarfon Castle, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. No matter how long I will stay away from the UK, one thing I will always miss is Welsh hills and rivers. I’ve been to many places i...
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else. O’Henry, an American writer....
You have probably heard about Moscow’s atrocious traffic jams. I have to visit my house 30 mins earlier because I must allow for the fact that it may take me 10-20 mins longer to get from my hou...
This is not a book that one can read – if reading means to start at the first page and to finish on the last. Here it does not end. One can use this book their entire life. One can also read it ...
In this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good. Giacomo Casanova, The Story of My Life. The illustration in this post is a page from Casanova&#...
Castaneda’s books insist otherwise. He is eloquent and convincing on how useless it is to explain or judge another culture entirely in terms of one’s own particular categories. “Supp...
Richard Rothwell, A Portrait of Mary Shelley Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos. Mary Shelley, the English writer....