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"“Ana leyó los versos de San Juan y entonces sintió la lengua expedita para improvisar oraciones; las recitaba en verso en sus paseos solitarios por el monte de Loreto, que olía a tomillo y caía a pico sobre el mar.”" — Jun 27, 2025 07:55AM
"“Ana leyó los versos de San Juan y entonces sintió la lengua expedita para improvisar oraciones; las recitaba en verso en sus paseos solitarios por el monte de Loreto, que olía a tomillo y caía a pico sobre el mar.”" — Jun 27, 2025 07:55AM
“Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”
― The Aeneid
― The Aeneid
“It's life that matters, nothing but life—the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“And I don't want to live like a fleeting shadow, a consumptive, no. I want to live genuinely, with the true warmth and in full bloom. I want to be a gay worshipper in the temple of the muses rather than a mere hunted prey. Each day I ask in my prayers for the ability to preserve my own inner world rather than become stifled, so that the sweet poison, which I see thousands of people sipping, may not consume me as well.”
― Soul of the Age: Selected Letters, 1891-1962
― Soul of the Age: Selected Letters, 1891-1962
“We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we return to the land. In a way, she owns us. Palestine owns us and we belong to her”
― Mornings in Jenin
― Mornings in Jenin
“Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
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