
“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”
[The Autumn of the Patriarch, 2006 [1976], HarperCollins, 978-0-06-088286-0, 254] translated from El Ontoño del Patriarica (1975) by Gregory Rabassa
"being to timelessness as it's to time" (1958)
“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”
[The Autumn of the Patriarch, 2006 [1976], HarperCollins, 978-0-06-088286-0, 254] translated from El Ontoño del Patriarica (1975) by Gregory Rabassa
Part VIII
The Manliness of Christ (1879)
Pierrette fit comme les gens qui souffrent au delà de leurs forces, elle garda le silence.Ce silence est, pour tous les êtres attaqués, le seul moyen de triompher: il lasse les charges cosaques des envieux, les sauvages escarmouches des ennemis; il donne une victoire écrasante et complète. Quoi de plus complet que le silence?Il est absolu, n'est-ce pas une des manières d'être de l'infini?
Source: Pierrette (1840), Ch. VI: An Old Maid's Jealousy
“Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.”
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 13; variant with modernized spelling: Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
“The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.”
Cited in: Kenneth G. Alfers (1993) America's second century: readings in United States history since 1877. p. 43