The Double

by José Saramago

what consequences does it have for a human being to know that he’s a mistake.

All the dictionaries put together don’t contain half the terms we would need in order for us to understand each other,

Lol

delaying a decision can become a conscious weapon of mental aggression against other people,

I am being called out

we are all more or less public figures, it’s only the number of spectators that varies,

:)

but I’d better not mention that today, I’m sure she wouldn’t understand why I did it. Helena will likewise say nothing either, she is equally sure that her husband would not understand what she had done.

So, so good

vegetal motorways

his life, like that of all humans who have lived and will live, will never know the supreme experience of the vegetal.

the future is just the time on which the eternal present feeds.

common sense is just a kind of arithmetic mean that rises and falls according to the tide,

what dogs most want in life is for no-one to go away.