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“TRUTH comes easier when you're nine years old, too. Everything's a lot less complicated. This or that. Us or them. Truth or lie.”
― Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street
― Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street
“Sus alumnos se someten de buena gana a la influencia de cualquier escritor contemporáneo, incluso de los mediocres, pero se muestran totalmente indiferentes a autores clásicos como Shakespeare, Marco Aurelio, Epicteto o Pascal, y esa incapacidad para distinguir lo grande de lo pequeño manifiesta ante todo su desconocimiento ante la vida.”
― Una historia aburrida
― Una historia aburrida
“A few times in my life I’ve had moments of absolute clarity. When for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh. It’s as though it had all just come into existence.
I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be.”
― A Single Man
I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be.”
― A Single Man
“There were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy of being able to love.”
― The Neverending Story
― The Neverending Story
“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
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