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“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

“There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Home

“Si el honor y la sabiduría y la felicidad no son para mí, que sean para otros. Que el cielo exista, aunque mi lugar sea el infierno”
― Jorge Luis Borges , Ficciones

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.

“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could look inside ourselves we would see via the patterns of neurons some of the important things that had happened to us in our lifetimes?”
― Evelyn Lau, Inside Out: Reflections on a life so far

“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.”
― Cherie Priest, Dreadnought

“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“El lector es un crítico con una ocupación importantísima: complacerse a sí mismo.”
― Ben Hecht

“My goodness, no one gives a gift to Santa Claus!”
― Michael Brown

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― Maximilien Robespierre