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“Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.”
― Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
― Albert Camus

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.”
― Michel Houellebecq

“Live to the point of tears.”
― Albert Camus

“1.
Ni con delicadeza
ni con cuidado.
Acaso
tiene delicadeza
vivir
romperse el alma.”
― Idea Vilariño, Poesía completa

“Because we don't have much time together, I will give you as much love in a year as I could give you in a lifetime.”
― Amélie Nothomb, Métaphysique des tubes

“I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― Albert Camus

“Y cuando una cosa –cualquier cosa– se mira muy de cerca, siempre se acaba amándola.”
― Sara Mesa, Cara de pan

“I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

“A mi noche no la mata ningún sol.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, Poesía completa

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it.”
― Bertolt Brecht