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“It is so tiring to hate someone you love.”
― The Woman Destroyed
― The Woman Destroyed
“Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something--something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.”
― Happiness
― Happiness
“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
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“We are never ‘at home’: we are always outside ourselves. Fear, desire, hope, impel us towards the future; they rob us of feelings and concern for what now is, in order to spend time over what will be – even when we ourselves shall be no more. [C] ‘Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius’ [Wretched is a mind anxious about the future].”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“Como el viajero que ha sorteado el abismo, podía asomarse a él y medir la profundidad en la que no había caído. Estaba enamorado, pero aún no estaba perdido.”
― El contenido del silencio
― El contenido del silencio
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