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“Mi cabeza es un laberinto oscuro. A veces hay como relámpagos que iluminan algunos corredores. Nunca termino de saber por qué hago ciertas cosas.”
― Ernesto Sabato, El túnel

“Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.”
― Ryu Murakami, Coin Locker Babies

“Anni, amori e bicchieri di vino, nun se contano mai.”’ ‘“Years, lovers and glasses of wine; these things must not be counted.”
― Anthony Capella, The Food of Love

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
― Aldous Huxley

“No hay casualidades sino destinos. No se encuentra sino lo que se busca, y se busca lo que en cierto modo está escondido en lo más profundo y oscuro de nuestro corazón. Porque si no, ¿cómo el encuentro con una misma persona no produce en dos seres los mismos resultados? ¿Por qué a uno el encuentro con un revolucionario lo lleva a la revolución y al otro lo deja indiferente? Razón por la cual parece como que uno termina por encontrarse al final con las personas que debe encontrar, quedando así la casualidad reducida a límites muy modestos. De modo que esos encuentros que en la vida de cada uno nos parecen asombrosos, no son otra cosa que la consecuencia de esas fuerzas desconocidas que nos aproximan a través de la multitud indiferente, como las limaduras de hierro se orientan a distancia hasta los polos de un poderoso imán; movimientos; movimientos que constituirían motivo de asombro para las limaduras si tuviesen alguna conciencia de sus actos sin alcanzar a tener, empero, un conocimiento pleno y total de la realidad. Así, marchamos un poco sonámbulos, hacia los seres que de algún modo son desde el comienzo nuestros destinatarios.”
― Ernesto Sabato, Sobre héroes y tumbas

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“What makes somebody nice or unpleasant to be around is the way they communicate. When people are fucked up, their communication is fucked up.”
― Ryū Murakami, In the Miso Soup

“And sometimes ignorance is even harder to deal with than deliberate evil.”
― Ryū Murakami, In the Miso Soup

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

“I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent”
― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“To you, I'm an atheist.
To God, I'm the loyal opposition.”
― Woody Allen

“Do you know a cure for me?"

"Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water."

"Salt water?" I asked him.

"Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales

“The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.”
― Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love

“Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.”
― Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love

“Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?”
― Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy

“Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.”
― Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy

“I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.”
― Hanif Kureishi, Something to Tell You

“If you never left anything or anyone there would be no room for the new. Naturally, to move on is an infidelity -- to others, to the past, to old notions of oneself. Perhaps every day should contain at least one essential infidelity or necessary betrayal. It would be an optimistic, hopeful act, guaranteeing belief in the future -- a declaration that things can be not only different but better.”
― Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy

“Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of what they fear the most. The secrets of why love is difficult, sex complicated, living painful and death so close and yet placed far away. Why are pleasure and punishment closely related? How do our bodies speak? Why do we make ourselves ill? Why do you want to fail? Why is pleasure hard to bear?”
― Hanif Kureishi

“Why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live. … Why can’t they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?”
― Hanif Kureishi

“At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are alarmed by their desire to devour others. ”
― Hanif Kureishi, Something to Tell You

“And so I sat in the centre of this old city that I loved, which itself sat at the bottom of a tiny island. I was surrounded by people I loved, and I felt happy and miserable at the same time. I thought of what a mess everything had been, but that it wouldn't always be this way.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia

“As a Newbody, however, I began to like the pornographic circus of rough sex; the stuff that resembled some of the modern dance I had seen, animalistic, without talk. I begged to be turned into meat, held down, tied, blindfolded, slapped, pulled and strangled, entirely merged in the physical, all my swirling selves sucked into orgasm.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Body

“Cuando pasa algo malo, pero malo de verdad, por mucho que llores, lo peor no es llorar, que eso a veces está bien, porque te quedas nuevo, lo peor empieza cuando no puedes llorar más, y entonces te das cuenta de que la tristeza es algo sucio, como un grumo gris, espeso, una pelota de barro dentro de los pulmones, que pesa, y la notas al respirar, todo el tiempo.”
― Almudena Grandes

“Siempre es levemente siniestro volver a los lugares que han sido testigos de un instante de perfección”
― Ernesto Sabato, Sobre héroes y tumbas

“Te vi follar y fallar y no sé cuándo me gustaste más: si cuando te contemplé proclamándote diosa o cuándo te observé confesándote humana.”
― Elvira Sastre, 43 ways of letting your hair down