Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

Our spontaneous aversions are often more lucid than our reasoned convictions. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 450

Man’s moment of greatest lucidity is when he doubts his doubt. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 363

The lucidity of certain moments is accompanied at times by the sensation of keeping watch alone in a sleeping city. Escolios a un Texto Impl...

When a society’s intelligence becomes plebeian, literary criticism appears more lucid, albeit cruder. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecci...

Lucidity is the booty of the defeated. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 303

To one who anxiously asks what is to be done today, let us honestly answer that today all that is possible is an impotent lucidity. Escolios...

Until man rouses himself from his current orgy of pride, it is not worth the trouble attempting anything. Only looks not thrown out of focu...

Lucidity, in the 20th century, has as its requisite abandonment to hope. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 158

To live with lucidity a simple, quiet, discreet life among intelligent books, loving a few persons. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección...

Our maturity must re-conquer its lucidity daily. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 36