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“Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived?”
― Stefan Zweig, Chess Story

“You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.

- Breeze”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.”
― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

“I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea....”
― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity”
― Sun-Tzu, A Arte da Guerra

“La percepción tiene siempre algo de imaginación. Se parece más a pintar que a fotografiar.”
― Mariano Sigman, La vida secreta de la mente: Nuestro cerebro cuando decidimos, sentimos y pensamos

“...stories can make someone immortal as long as someone else is willing to listen.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“Maybe it's better to have gotten it right and been happy for one day instead of living a lifetime of wrongs.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“Los fantasmas son reales. Y no siempre vienen los que uno llama.”
― Mariana Enríquez, Nuestra parte de noche

“Renunciar es fácil cuando se tiene mucho, pensó. Él nunca había tenido nada.”
― Mariana Enríquez, Nuestra parte de noche

“It has always seemed to me that a coward is a person who cares more about what people say than about what is right. Bravery isn't about what people call you, Spensa. It's about who you know yourself to be.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

“Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“All art is quite useless.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about. ”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Eran como dos desconocidos buscando desesperadamente un tema en común; parecía que hablaban de algo y estaban juntos, pero sabían que en realidad no hablaban de nada y estaban solos.”
― Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

“A los dieciocho años tenía todo tan claro. Creía que era valiente porque había desafiado a su familia. Creía que era inteligente porque leía a los griegos, porque aprendía latín, porque citaba a Derrida. Incluso antes, mucho antes de los dieciocho, a los diez, a los doce años, tenía un plan: hablar de otra manera, vivir de otra manera, pensar de otra manera, romper todos los espejos de la casa hasta olvidar alegremente, definitivamente su rostro.”
― Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

“El mundo se cae a pedazos y casi siempre todo se va a la mierda y casi siempre dañamos a las personas que queremos o ellas nos dañan a nosotros irremediablemente y no parece haber motivos para albergar ninguna clase de esperanza, pero al menos esta historia termina bien, termina aquí, con la escena de estos dos poetas chilenos que se miran a los ojos y que lanzan risotadas y que por ningún motivo quieren irse de ese bar, así que piden otra ronda de cerveza.”
― Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno