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“Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.”
― John Dos Passos

tags: ethics, invent, men, morals

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“The sense that everything is going wrong has existed in every era, and rightly so since men have found no greater pleasure than in inventing new ways to make each other miserable.”
― Emil Cioran

tags: despair, history, misery, sadness, wrong

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“Everything is language.”
― Octavio Paz, The Bow and the Lyre: The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History

tags: language, philosophy, things

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“When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”
― Stephen King, Joyland

tags: past

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“Infinito —y no histórico— es Aquiles por su cólera y su amor, independientemente de que haya o no existido; como infinito será Cristo por su impracticable filosofía, regístrelo o no la Historia. Esas metáforas, esas imágenes, pertenecen a la eternidad.”
― Reinaldo Arenas

tags: eternidad, eternity, forever, memory

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