Alvaro Mutis on the monarchy
The paradox, quite painful for me, is that I was already a royalist at a very young age. I could almost say, since childhood. My first...
Excerpt from The Hussar. Poem by Alvaro Mutis
[…] The centuries-old must of the wine, which is watered in the cellars. The power of his arm and his bronze shadow. The stained-glass window that recounts….
Nocturne. Poem by Alvaro Mutis
Fever draws the song of an androgynous bird, paving the way for insatiable pleasure that branches out and traverses the body of the earth. Oh! the infruct...
Christian Testimony – 2
When I started this blog, the idea of writing about liturgy came to me very quickly. Not to claim the status of a specialist...
In the polluted air of our societies
“We are told that the air in the world is unbreathable. I agree. But the first Christians found every morning at their doorstep an atmosphere that…”.
On totalitarian states
"Totalitarian states, which alternately use lies and violence (lies to cover up violence and violence to silence those who...".
Speech by Donoso Cortès (1850)
"Regular armies are today the only thing preventing civilization from descending into barbarism. Today, what is offered to us...".
Hannah Arendt on human life
Modern theories, whose raison d'être is to obscure human nature and thus instill in humankind an excessive belief in its own person...
Unamuno on human life
"I don't want to die, no I don't, nor do I want to; I want to live forever, forever; and live myself, this poor self, that I am and I...".
Yeats on human life
"When I think of all the books I have read," Yeats said, "all the wise words I have heard, all the anguish I have caused...".
Simone de Beauvoir on human life
"To declare that life is absurd is to say that it will never have meaning. To say that it is ambiguous is to decide that its meaning...".
Pascal on human life
And this excerpt from Pascal, an avowed and forced intimacy: "When I consider the short duration of my life, absorbed in the eternity preceding and following, the...".
Tolstoy on human life
This morning, I stumbled* — literally — upon this passage from Tolstoy's Confession which is a pure marvel and which so aptly foreshadows The Death of Ivan Ilyich...
The abandonment of Benedict XVI
“Eli, Eli lama sabachthani?” 1 When Benedict XVI signified, in a few simple words, that he was renouncing the office of pope, it was a trembling of...