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“Un telón mágico, tejido de leyendas, colgaba ante el mundo. Cervantes envió de viaje a Don Quijote y rasgó el telón. El mundo se abrió ante el caballero andante en toda la desnudez cómica de su prosa.
Al igual que una mujer se maquilla antes de correr hacia su primera cita, el mundo, cuando acude a nosotros en el momento en que nacemos, ya está maquillado, enmascarado, preinterpretado. Y los conformistas no serán los únicos en no darse cuenta; los seres rebeldes, ávidos de oponerse a todo y a todos, no se dan cuenta de hasta qué punto ellos mismos son obedientes; sólo se rebelarán contra lo que ha sido interpretado (preinterpretado) como motivo digno de rebelión.”
― Milan Kundera

“...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“All useful things have a price, and are bought only with money, as that is the way the world is run. You know without having to reason about it the price of a bale of cotton, or a quart of molasses. But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth? If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.”
― Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

“It’s all been worth it. Every fight, all those years of childish experimentation, the occasional heartbreak, the paltry checking account, the used, old trucks. To have lived with another human being, another person, this man, as long as I have, and to see him change and grow. To see him become more decent and more patient, stronger and more competent—to see how he loves our children—how he wrestles with them on the floor and kisses them unabashedly in public. To hear his voice in the evening, reading books to them, or explaining to them what his father was like while he was alive, or what I was like as a girl, a teenager, a young woman. To hear him explain why our part of the world is so special.”
― Nickolas Butler, Shotgun Lovesongs