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Paisaje con un grano de arena

by Wisława Szymborska

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Miss Buncle's Book (Miss Buncle #1)

by D.E. Stevenson

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El sabueso de los Baskerville

by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Marcela’s Quotes

“I like you; your eyes are full of language."

[Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]”
― Anne Sexton

tags: expression, expressiveness, eyes, language

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“Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

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“Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.”
― Charlotte Brontë

tags: bronte, feminism, villette

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“Yo sigo clasificando a la humanidad —para mi uso, que es el que me importa, y que Dios me perdone— en amigos e hijos de puta.”
― Camilo José Cela

tags: amigos, hijos-de-puta

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“Charity begins at home, the saying goes, and for many people, charity also stops at home, or not very far from it.”
― Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty

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