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  • #1
    Helen Keller
    “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
    Helen Keller

  • #2
    “One of our greatest freedoms is how we react to things.”
    Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

  • #3
    “Always remember you matter, you're important and you are loved, and you bring to this world things no one else can.”
    Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

  • #4
    Sylvia Plath
    “I need a father. I need a mother. I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #5
    Alice Oseman
    “Give your friendships the magic you would give a romance. Because they're just as important. Actually, for us, they're way more important.”
    Alice Oseman, Loveless

  • #6
    Adiba Jaigirdar
    “It doesn’t seem like much. But sometimes just being yourself—really, truly yourself—can be the most difficult thing to be.”
    Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars

  • #7
    P. Djèlí Clark
    “You see, the hate they give is senseless. They already got power. Yet they hate those over who they got control, who don’t really pose a threat to them. Their fears aren’t real—just insecurities and inadequacies. Deep down they know that. Makes their hate like … watered-down whiskey. Now your people!”
    P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

  • #8
    P. Djèlí Clark
    “Y’all got a good reason to hate. All the wrongs been done to you and yours? A people who been whipped and beaten, hunted and hounded, suffered so grievously at their hands. You have every reason to despise them. To loathe them for centuries of depravations. That hate would be so pure, so sure and righteous—so strong!”
    P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

  • #9
    Shirley Jackson
    “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.”
    Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

  • #10
    Liu Cixin
    “The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently pushing aside branches that block the path and trying to tread without sound. Even breathing is done with care. The hunter has to be careful, because everywhere in the forest are stealthy hunters like him. If he finds other life—another hunter, an angel or a demon, a delicate infant or a tottering old man, a fairy or a demigod—there’s only one thing he can do: open fire and eliminate them. In this forest, hell is other people. An eternal threat that any life that exposes its own existence will be swiftly wiped out. This is the picture of cosmic civilization. It’s the explanation for the Fermi Paradox.”
    Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest

  • #11
    Blaise Pascal
    “When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair.”
    Blaise Pascal

  • #12
    Liu Cixin
    “You know how the joke goes: On the way to the execution ground, a condemned criminal complained that it was going to rain, and the executioner said, ‘What have you got to worry about? We’re the ones who’ve got to go back through it!”
    Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest

  • #13
    Liu Cixin
    “Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is.”
    Liu Cixin, Death's End

  • #14
    Ted Chiang
    “Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I feel I have the right to tell you this because, as I am inscribing these words, I am doing the same.”
    Ted Chiang, Exhalation

  • #15
    N.K. Jemisin
    “According to legend, Father Earth did not originally hate life. In fact, as the lorists tell it, once upon a time Earth did everything he could to facilitate the strange emergence of life on his surface. He crafted even, predictable seasons; kept changes of wind and wave and temperature slow enough that every living being could adapt, evolve; summoned waters that purified themselves, skies that always cleared after a storm. He did not create life—that was happenstance—but he was pleased and fascinated by it, and proud to nurture such strange wild beauty upon his surface. Then people began to do horrible things to Father Earth. They poisoned waters beyond even his ability to cleanse, and killed much of the other life that lived on his surface. They drilled through the crust of his skin, past the blood of his mantle, to get at the sweet marrow of his bones. And at the height of human hubris and might, it was the orogenes who did something that even Earth could not forgive: They destroyed his only child.”
    N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

  • #16
    Liu Cixin
    “It’s a wonder to be alive. If you don’t understand that, how can you search for anything deeper?”
    Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest

  • #17
    Mikhail Bakunin
    “La Biblia, que es un libro muy interesante y a veces muy profundo cuando se lo considera como una de las más antiguas manifestaciones de la sabiduría y de la fantasía humanas que han llegado hasta nosotros, expresa esta verdad de una manera muy ingenua en su mito del pecado original. Jehová, que de todos los buenos dioses que han sido adorados por los hombres es ciertamente el más envidioso, el más vanidoso, el más feroz, el más injusto, el más sanguinario, el más déspota y el más enemigo de la dignidad y de la libertad humanas, que creó a Adán y a Eva por no sé qué capricho (sin duda para engañar su hastío que debía de ser terrible en su eternamente egoísta soledad, para procurarse nuevos esclavos), había puesto generosamente a su disposición toda la Tierra, con todos sus frutos y todos los animales, y no había puesto a ese goce completo más que un límite. Les había prohibido expresamente que tocaran los frutos del árbol de la ciencia. Quería que el hombre, privado de toda conciencia de sí mismo, permaneciese un eterno animal, siempre de cuatro patas ante el Dios eterno, su creador su amo. Pero he aquí que llega Satanás, el eterno rebelde, el primer librepensador y el emancipador de los mundos. Avergüenza al hombre de su ignorancia de su obediencia animales; lo emancipa e imprime sobre su frente el sello de la libertad y de la humanidad, impulsándolo a desobedecer y a comer del fruto de la ciencia.

    Se sabe lo demás. El buen Dios, cuya ciencia innata constituye una de las facultades divinas, habría debido advertir lo que sucedería; sin embargo, se enfureció terrible y ridículamente: maldijo a Satanás, al hombre y al mundo creados por él, hiriéndose, por decirlo así, en su propia creación, como hacen los niños cuando se encolerizan; y no contento con alcanzar a nuestros antepasados en el presente, los maldijo en todas las generaciones del porvenir, inocentes del crimen cometido por aquellos. (...)”
    Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin, God and the State

  • #18
    Jane Austen
    “No poseo el talento de otros que pueden conversar con facilidad con quienes nunca han visto. No tengo valor para ello ni puedo adaptarme al carácter de los demás con la facilidad que otros lo hacen.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #19
    N.K. Jemisin
    “This is what you must remember: the ending of one story is just the beginning of another. This has happened before, after all. People die. Old orders pass. New societies are born. When we say “the world has ended,” it’s usually a lie, because the planet is just fine. But this is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. For the last time.”
    N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

  • #20
    “What is belonging?” we ask. She says, “Where loneliness ends.”
    Rivers Solomon, The Deep

  • #21
    Karen Armstrong
    “there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.”
    Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth

  • #22
    Liu Cixin
    “It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair. To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race.”
    Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

  • #23
    Ted Chiang
    “The universe began as an enormous breath being held. Who knows why, but whatever the reason, I'm glad it did, because I owe my existence to that fact. All my desires and ruminations are no more and no less than eddy currents generated by the gradual exhalation of our universe. And until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on.”
    Ted Chiang, Exhalation

  • #24
    Liu Cixin
    “Death is the only lighthouse that is always lit. No matter where you sail, ultimately, you must turn toward it. Everything fades in the world, but Death endures.”
    Liu Cixin, Death's End

  • #25
    Yuval Noah Harari
    “La historia de la ética es un triste relato de ideales maravillosos que nadie cumple.”
    Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens. De animales a dioses: Una breve historia de la humanidad

  • #26
    Yuval Noah Harari
    “Mucho antes de la revolución industrial, Homo sapiens ostentaba el récord entre todos los organismos por provocar la extinción del mayor número de especies de plantas y animales. Poseemos la dudosa distinción de ser la especie más mortífera en los anales de la biología.”
    Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens. De animales a dioses: Una breve historia de la humanidad

  • #27
    Nina Varela
    “If the universe were static, I could stand anywhere in this world and I swear my line of sight would end on you. I swear I'd find you in the dark.”
    Nina Varela, Iron Heart

  • #28
    Laura Gallego García
    “¡La eternidad! —exclamó Bipa con desdén—. ¿De qué te sirve la eternidad si para ello has de renunciar a la vida?

    Bipa”
    Laura Gallego García, La emperatriz de los etéreos

  • #28
    Ted Chiang
    “People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments. Which is why, even when we’ve experienced the same events as other individuals, we never constructed identical narratives: the criteria used for selecting moments were different for each of us, and a reflection of our personalities. Each of us noticed the details that caught our attention and remembered what was important to us, and the narratives we built shaped our personalities in turn. But, I wondered, if everyone remembered everything, would our differences get shaved away? What would happen to our sense of self? It seemed to me that a perfect memory couldn’t be a narrative any more than unedited security-cam footage could be a feature film. ·”
    Ted Chiang, The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling

  • #29
    Liu Cixin
    “The universe had once been bright, too. For a short time after the big bang, all matter existed in the form of light, and only after the universe turned to burnt ash did heavier elements precipitate out of the darkness and form planets and life. Darkness was the mother of life and of civilization. On Earth, an avalanche of curses and abuse rolled out into space toward Blue Space and Bronze Age, but the two ships made no reply. They cut off all contact with the Solar System, for to those two worlds, the Earth was already dead. The two dark ships became one with the darkness, separated by the Solar System and drifting further apart. Carrying with them the entirety of human thoughts and memories, and embracing all of the Earth’s glory and dreams, they quietly disappeared into the eternal night.”
    Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest



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