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La diferencia esencial entre aquella cultura del pasado y el entretenimiento de hoy es que los productos de aquélla pretendían trascender el tiempo presente, durar, seguir vivos en las generaciones futuras, en tanto que los productos de
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“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
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