Gerardo Guirola

“Maybe I’d have a mountain retreat, a pretty little cabin where I could read my books, listen to music, watch old movies on video, do some cooking,”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“Those who seek some sort of a higher purpose or ’universal goal,’ who don’t know what to live for, who moan that they must ’find themselves.’ You hear it all around us. That seems to be the official bromide of our century. Every book you open. Every drooling self-confession. It seems to be the noble thing to confess. I’d think it would be the most shameful one.”
― Ayn Rand, Fountainhead

“So after centuries of being pounded with the doctrine that altruism is the ultimate ideal, men have accepted it in the only way it could be accepted. By seeking self-esteem through others. By living second-hand. And it has opened the way for every kind of horror. It has become the dreadful form of selfishness which a truly selfish man couldn’t have conceived. And now, to cure a world perishing from selflessness, we’re asked to destroy the self.”
― Ayn Rand, Fountainhead

“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune