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Tres cuentos espirituales

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“La vida es difícil. Para estar en paz con uno mismo hay que decir la verdad. Para estar en paz con el prójimo hay que mentir.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares

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“I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.”
― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

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“Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.”
― Juan Rulfo

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“PROMETHEUS: 'Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers”
― Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

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“The availability of books is not the same as reading them, nor reading the same as understanding them.”
― Ian Campbell Ross, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

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