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    Ovid
    “Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?”
    ― Ovid, Metamorphoses
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    Donna Tartt
    “I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
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    Euripides
    “Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”
    ― Euripides
    tags: bereavement, dream, greek, grief, loss, mourning, shadow, tragedy
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    Osamu Dazai
    “This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
    tags: love, revolution
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: self-realization
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    Anne Carson
    “We are slaves to the gods. Whatever gods are.”
    ― Anne Carson, An Oresteia
    tags: gods
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    Osamu Dazai
    “I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
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    Julio Cortázar
    “Los cronopios, en cambio, esos seres desordenados y tibios, dejan los recuerdos sueltos por la casa, entre alegres gritos, y ellos andan por el medio y cuando pasa corriendo uno, lo acarician con suavidad y le dicen: 'No vayas a lastimarte', y también: 'Cuidado con los escalones'.”
    ― Julio Cortázar, Historias de cronopios y de famas
    tags: cronopio
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “La única diferencia que hay entre un capricho y una pasión eterna es que el capricho dura un poco más de tiempo.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Yo me pregunto si las estrellas están encendidas para que cada cual pueda un día encontrar la suya.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: el-principito, estrellas, stars, the-little-prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, El Principito
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    Julio Cortázar
    “Al llegar al corazón el tiempo no puede ya medirse, y en la infinita rosa violeta del centro el cronopio encuentra un gran contento...”
    ― Julio Cortázar, Historias de cronopios y de famas
    tags: cronopio
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    Bram Stoker
    “Fe: Es una facultad que nos permite creer en cosas que sabemos que no son ciertas.”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Y para eso escribo, escribo, escribo, al mediodía o a las tres de la madrugada. Para no estar muerto.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
    tags: introduction
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    Alejandra Pizarnik
    “Dile que los suspiros del mar
    Humedecen las únicas palabras
    Por las que vale la pena vivir”
    ― alejandra pizarnik
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    Alejandra Pizarnik
    “Mi sueño es un sueño sin alternativas y quiero morir al pie de la letra del lugar común que asegura que morir es soñar”
    ― Alejandra Pizarnik, En esta noche, en este mundo
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    Ernesto Sabato
    “Y en aquel reducto solitario me ponía a escribir cuentos. Ahora advierto que escribía cada vez que era infeliz, que me sentía solo o desajustado con el mundo en que me había cado nacer. Y pienso si no será siempre así, que el arte de nuestro tiempo, ese arte tenso y desgarrado, nazca invariablemente de nuestro desajusdte, de nuestra ansiedad y nuestro descontento.”
    ― Ernesto Sabato, Sobre héroes y tumbas
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “¡Dios mío! ¡todo un minuto de felicidad! ¿acaso no es suficiente para una vida humana...?”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I write only because
    There is a voice within me
    That will not be still”
    ― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: knowledge-books
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    John Keats
    “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
    ― John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems
    tags: philosophy, religion, science
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    John Keats
    “I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
    ― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
    tags: butterflies, days, fanny-brawne, fifty-common-years, letter, love, summer, three
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor-heaven
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: imagination, life, money
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    Osamu Dazai
    “Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.

    Everything passes.

    That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.

    Everything passes.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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