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“Silence is the mother of truth.”
― Disraeli

“Then why do you want to know?"

"Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“Al fin y al cabo, un hombre es sólo lo que ha decidido hacer o no hacer.”
― Qiu Xiaolong, Death of a Red Heroine

“A man without words is a man without thought.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.”
― Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea

“Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.”
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

“Es un error confundir lo extraordinario con lo misterioso. El más vulgar de los crímenes es, con frecuencia, el más misterioso porque no ofrece rasgos especiales de los que puedan hacerse deducciones.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“Un estudio en escarlata, ¿eh? ¿Por qué no hemos de emplear un poco el argot artístico? Nos encontramos con el hilo rojo del asesinato enzarzado en la madeja incolora de la vida, y nuestro deber consiste en desenmarañarlo, aislarlo y poner a la vista hasta la última pulgada.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four

“So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not but think what a terrible criminal he would have made had he turned his energy and sagacity against the law instead of exerting them in its defense.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four

“The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“...the real poison within families is not the poison that you put in your food, but the poison that grows up in the heart when people are jealous of one another and cannot speak these feelings and drain out the poison that way.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, Morality for Beautiful Girls

“«Las putas nunca debieron irse de aquella casa. El primero y el segundo oficio más viejos del mundo deberían estar juntos. Al fin y al cabo, entre el nacimiento de uno y otro sólo mediaron unas horas. El primero surgió para que cualquiera pudiera satisfacer las exigencias del amor; el segundo, para que nadie intentara satisfacer por su cuenta las exigencias del odio».”
― Eugenio Fuentes, El interior del bosque

“People who can be very good can be very bad too.”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“En todas las cosas hay un límite que no se debe franquear, pues, una vez al otro lado, la vuelta atrás es imposible.”
― Fedor Dostoiewski, Crimen y castigo

“La mentira es el único privilegio del hombre sobre todos los demás animales.”
― Fiódor M. Dostoievski, Crime and Punishment

“Cuando un hombre tiene que abusar de la mentira para cumplir con su deber puede estar seguro de que anda equivocado de verdad o de deber.”
― Lorenzo Silva, El lejano país de los estanques

“There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle; Corrections And Editor Edgar W. Smith; Illustrators, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”
― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

“If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.”
― Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

“los sueños son como capullos de polilla vacíos o como abiertas vainas de algodón, cáscaras muertas en cuyo interior la vida aleteó fugazmente, animada por un furioso pero frágil vendaval de energía.”
― Stephen King, Gerald's Game

“If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies.”
― Stephen King, Gerald's Game

“A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.”
― Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time