“Pasó todo tan rápido, tan natural, tan felizmente, que no pude tomar ni una sola anotación mental. Cuando se está en el foco mismo de la vida, es imposible reflexionar.”
― La tregua
― La tregua
“It is late now, I am a bit tired; the sky is irritated by stars. And I love you, I love you, I love you – and perhaps this is how the whole enormous world, shining all over, can be created – out of five vowels and three consonants.”
― Letters to Vera
― Letters to Vera
“The evil in the world comes almost always from ignorance, and goodwill can cause as much damage as ill-will if it is not enlightened. People are more often good than bad, though in fact that is not the question. But they are more or less ignorant and this is what one calls vice or virtue, the most appalling vice being the ignorance that thinks it knows everything and which consequently authorizes itself to kill. The murderer's soul is blind, and there is no true goodness or fine love without the greatest possible degree of clear-sightedness.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“We could go anywhere at all, as long as I’m with you.”
― Strange Weather in Tokyo
― Strange Weather in Tokyo
“Me han golpeado, sabes, me han dado duros golpes en eso que le llaman sentimiento.
No sé quién; pero si sé que a veces, cuando me examino el alma, la siento un poco quebrada.”
― Cartas a Clara
No sé quién; pero si sé que a veces, cuando me examino el alma, la siento un poco quebrada.”
― Cartas a Clara
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