Victoria

“human beings are known universally as the only animals capable of lying, and while it is true that they sometimes lie out of fear and sometimes out of self-interest, they also occasionally lie because they realize, just in time, that this is the only means available to them of defending the truth.”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“También eran vanos los intentos del comerciante por convencer a Siddharta de que se comía su pan, el de Kamaswami. Siddharta comía su propio pan -decía él-, o más bien, ambos comían el pan de otros, el de todos.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“We are born, and at that moment, it is as if we had signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf,”
― José Saramago, Seeing