Age carries with it a double load of guilt.

You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.

The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He so chooses, has no need of men, though He cannot dispense with women.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.