Luis

“Committing himself to the freelance’s life he lived at the edge of poverty, a southerner he stood outside of the literary establishment of new England. Poe’s pale expression in his most famous photo shows a man who believed he was born to suffer. If circumstances in his life were not propitious to suffering, he made sure to change them until they were, deep in his understanding almost as to be unconscious was a respect for the driving power of his misery. That it could take manifold forms in ways that he didn’t have to be aware of as if not he, but it could create. “ E.L. Doctorow on Edgar Allan Poe”
― E.L. Doctorow, Creationists: Selected Essays: 1993-2006

“Your "best"! Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.”
― Sean Connery

“In men the nature of the genital organs is disobedient and self-willed, like a creature that is deaf to reason, and it attempts to dominate all because of its frenzied lusts.”
― Plato

“Los vínculos del engaño y la desdicha son los más fuertes de todos." Javier Marias - Asi empieza lo malo”
― Javier Marías, Así empieza lo malo