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“Es el recuerdo, no el olvido, el verdadero invento del demonio”
― Ray Loriga, Tokyo Doesn't Love Us Anymore

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft, The Nameless City

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“Every man and every woman is a star.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
― Mae West

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Aturdido por dos nostalgias enfrentadas como dos espejos, perdió su maravilloso sentido de la irrealidad, hasta que terminó por recomendarles a todos que se fueran de Macondo, que olvidaran cuanto él les había enseñado del mundo y del corazón humano, que se cagaran en Horacio y que en cualquier lugar en que estuvieran recordaran siempre que el pasado era mentira, que la memoria no tenía caminos de regreso, que toda primavera antigua era irrecuperable, y que el amor más desatinado y tenaz era de todos modos una verdad efímera.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“No es fácil que confíes en ti mismo cuando todos confían en que seas alguna otra cosa distinta.”
― Ray Loriga, Héroes

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“No era pintura, ni el color de la salud, ni divulgador del alcohol; era el rojo que brota en las mejillas al calor de palabras de amor o de vergüenza que se pronuncian cerca de ellas, palabras que parecen imanes que atraen el hierro de la sangre.”
― Leopoldo Alas

“If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“La ausencia paulatina de tu interés por mí,
la falta progresiva de tus "buenos días",
la elección egoísta de tu lejanía,
fueron los que determinaron que no hiciera falta viajar a Macondo;
bastaba besar tus labios para sentir...
cien años de soledad.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“El infierno está vacío, y todos los diablos están aquí.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“I don't want to die without any scars.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

“Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“We'll never be as young as we are tonight.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey