“Pero lo que me sigue sorprendiendo, lo que me alucina incluso, lo que aún hoy –tras más de diez años de práctica– me deja a veces sin aliento, es la perdurabilidad de las penas infantiles. La huella ardiente, incandescente, que dejan a pesar de los años. Una huella indeleble.”
― Las gratitudes
― Las gratitudes
“Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”
― Romeo and Juliet
― Romeo and Juliet
“Envejecer es aprender a perder. Asumir, todas o casi todas las semanas, un nuevo déficit, una nueva degradación, un nuevo deterioro. Así es como yo lo veo. Y ya no hay nada en la columna de las ganancias. Un día ya no puedes correr, ni caminar, ni inclinarte, ni agacharte, ni levantarte, ni estirarte, ni encorvarte, ni darte la vuelta de un lado, ni del otro, ni hacia delante, ni hacia atrás, ni por la mañana, ni por la noche, ni nada de nada. Solo puedes conformarte, una y otra vez. Perder la memoria, perder los referentes”
― Las gratitudes
― Las gratitudes
“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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