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Algún día te mostraré el desierto by Renato Cisneros

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Muy pronto captas que vivir fuera es volverte invisible donde solías ser demasiado visible. Es como morir de golpe pero sin causar dolor a nadie. Eso es el exilio: un entrenamiento para que, el día que mueras, a tus parientes y conocidos no ...more

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“There is no more powerful skill for success in any field than knowing how to ask the right questions.”
― Antoine Wilson, Mouth to Mouth

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“No longer among us but never far from our hearts. In the eyes of the world, he was just one person but to us, he was the whole world.”
― Jente Posthuma, Waar ik liever niet aan denk

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“In foreign policy, managing a situation in a manner that fails to address core or what are sometimes described as final status issues can be preferable to attempting to bring about a solution sure to be unacceptable to one or more of the parties and that could as a result provoke a dangerous response. Economics,”
― Richard Haass, A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order

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“Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose custody of my own mind. This was the price I was being asked to pay, I understood that now. What my father wanted to cast from me wasn’t a demon: it was me.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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