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“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“La estupidez del mundo es tan superlativa que, cuando nos aquejan las desgracias, normalmente producto de nuestros excesos, echamos la culpa al sol, la luna y las estrellas, como si fuésemos canallas por necesidad, tontos por coacción celeste; granujas, ladrones y traidores por influjo planetario; borrachos, embusteros y adúlteros por forzosa sumisión al imperio de los astros, y tuviésemos todos nuestros vicios por divina imposición. Prodigiosa escapatoria del putero, achacando su lujuria a las estrellas. Mi padre se entendió con mi madre bajo la cola del dragón y la osa mayor presidió mi nacimiento, de donde resulta que soy duro y lascivo. ¡Va! Habría salido el mismo si me bastardean mientras luce la estrella más virgen de todo el firmamento.”
― William Shakespeare, El rey Lear / Othello

“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“History has failed us, but no matter.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko