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“La peor forma de extrañar a alguien es estar sentado a su lado y sabe que nunca lo podrás tener.”
― Gabriel García Marquéz

“Te pone a prueba. ¿Sabes?, a veces creo que está vivo.”
― Ursula Poznanski, Erebos

“La plata es como una droga, lo fundamental es tenerla, saber que está, ir, tocarla, revisar el ropero, entre la ropa, la bolsa, ver que hay medio kilo, que hay cien mil mangos, quedarse tranquilo. Entonces recién se puede seguir viviendo.”
― Ricardo Piglia, Plata quemada

“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard."

(Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities, July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)”
― David McCullough

“Todo el mundo es diferente y puede que ese sea el secreto de la felicidad: estar en paz con lo que eres”
― Joël Dicker, Le Livre des Baltimore

“Somos muchos los que buscamos darle algún sentido a la vida, pero la vida solo tiene sentido si somos capaces de cumplir estos tres propósitos: dar amor, recibirlo y saber perdonar. Todo lo demás es una pérdida de tiempo.”
― Joël Dicker , Le Livre des Baltimore

“-No es cuestión de estar equivocado o no, Marcus. Es lo que uno siente. Nadie puede controlarlo ni razonarlo.”
― Joël Dicker

“Los recuerdos se guardan en la cabeza. Lo demás no son más que trastos.”
― Joël Dicker, Le Livre des Baltimore

“Perhaps I am even envious of Stendhal? He robbed me of the best atheist joke which precisely I could have made: 'God's only excuse is that he does not exist'...I myself have said somewhere: what hitherto been the greatest objection to existence? God...”
― Fredrich Nietzsche

“Quería creerle con esa ansía que confiere la sospecha de que la verdad hace daño y que los cobardes viven más y mejor, aunque se en la prisión de sus propias mentiras.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, El laberinto de los espíritus

“La elocuencia de una exposición es directamente proporcional a la inteligencia de quien la formula, del mismo modo que credibilidad lo es a la estupidez de quien la recibe.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, El laberinto de los espíritus

“La verad nunca es perfecta y nunca cuada con todas las expectativas. La verdad siempre plantea dudad y preguntas. Solo la mentira es creíble al cien por cien, porque no tiene que justificar la realidad sino sencillamente decirnos lo que queremos oír.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, El laberinto de los espíritus

“There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (and then I see Annabel in such general terms as: "honey-colored skin," "thin arms," "brown bobbed hair," "long lashes," "big bright mouth"); and the other when you instantly evoke, with shut eyes, on the dark innerside of your eyelids, the objective, absolutely optical replica of a beloved face, a little ghost in natural colors (and this is how I see Lolita).”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“In chess, without the king, the other pieces would all be "dead", so their existance is supported by the king, but they need to serve the king with their capacity for action in order to have a good game.”
― Roumen Bezergianov

“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Mighty is the charm
Of these abstractions to a mind beset
With images, and haunted by herself
And specially delightful unto me
Was that clear synthesis built up aloft
So gracefully.”
― William Wordsworth, The Prelude

“Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.”
― André Gide

“Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the most wonderful things that will ever happen to us”
― Nicole Reed, Ruining You

“One thing I have witnessed is that public life can change people unrecognizably in a few short years.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

“You’ve got to enjoy yourself. The evening’s the best part of the day. You’ve done your day’s work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it. That’s how I look at it. Ask anybody, they’ll all tell you. The evening’s the best part of the day.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

“Algunos casos tienen ese efecto. Un único acontecimiento y todo lo que sucede a continuación se vuelve distino. La mayoría de los delitos se olvidan. Todo el mundo sigue con su vida. El delico cae en el olvido. Pero algunos tocan la fibra sensible de la memoria. Son comp una llaga que no llega a curarse. Dejan una cicatriz.”
― John Katzenbach, Personas desconocidas

“Para un marino a bordo de un barco, lo mismo que para el soldado en la batalla o para el feligrés arrodillado ante un sacerdote, la enormidad de la propia insignificancia resultaba tan evidente que el único consuelo era imaginarse gobernados por hombres que poseía certezas en lugar de preguntas.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Eva

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
― Maya Angelou

“Look deep enough into any person and you will find something shining within.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter
hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as
much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first
blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last
blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”
― Jacob A. Riis

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is gone, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it...”
― Groucho Marx

“We are close to waking when we dream that we are dreaming.”
― Novalis, Philosophical Writings

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre