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“One day Bird had approached his father with this question; he was six years old: Father, where was I a hundred years before I was born? Where will I be a hundred years after I die? Father, what will happen to me when I die? Without a word, his young father had punched him in the mouth, broke two of his teeth and bloodied his face, and Bird forgot the fear of death.”
― Kenzaburō Ōe, A Personal Matter

“I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

“Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, like many clichés, so lame & banal on the surface, actually expresses a great & terrible truth.”
― David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

“This is water.”
― David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

“If I had to define a major depression in a single sentence, I would describe it as a "genetic/neurochemical disorder requiring a strong environmental trigger whose characteristic manifestation is an inability to appreciate sunsets.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

“existen creencias colectivas por así decir asintomáticas: brotan y se propagan utilizando la conciencia individual como incubadora inconsciente y permanecen sustancialmente ilegibles hasta el momento en que emergen con la rapidez de una pandemia,”
― Alessandro Baricco, Lo que estábamos buscando: De la pandemia como criatura mítica

“se convierte en historia aquello que los humanos no saben que piensan hasta que no logran producirlo para sí mismos, sintetizarlo y nombrarlo en forma de acontecimiento histórico.”
― Alessandro Baricco, Lo que estábamos buscando: De la pandemia como criatura mítica

“We all like chicken”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X