Daniel

“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?”
― Clarice Lispector, A Hora da Estrela

“Solo piensas en la muerte cuando te mueres, Aleksy, solo cuando te mueres, y eso es una tontería, una inmensa tontería. Porque, en lugar de todos sus sueños, la muerte es lo más probable que va a sucederle a un individuo. De hecho, lo único que le va a suceder con toda certeza. Por eso, Aleksy, no hagas nunca las cosas a lo tonto pensando que tendrás tiempo de enderezarlas, porque no lo tendrás. El tiempo de después lo utilizarás para hacer más tonterías y para morir más deprisa.”
― Tatiana Țîbuleac, El verano en que mi madre tuvo los ojos verdes

“In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail