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“Keep cool but care”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album

“So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.”
― Renata Adler

“There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.”
― Richard Rorty

“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?”
― Clarice Lispector, A Hora da Estrela

“Qué decirnos que no fueran superficies e ilusiones, de qué hablar si no pasaríamos nunca al otro lado para cerrar el dibujo, si seguíamos buscándonos desde muertos y muñecas.”
― Julio Cortázar, 62: A Model Kit

“To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.”
― Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet