Karl Ocampo

“The truth is that by the infinite flexibility of interpretation one can get away with anything. Some people perpetrate fraud in the name of charity, others justify their obvious lunacy by calling it inspiration.”
― Sōseki Natsume, I Am a Cat

“All you regret in the end are the sins you didn't commit.”
― Isabel Allende

“To see the death as our own, that is the beginning of wisdom. To find the loss as our own, that is the beginning of respect for others. To feel the pain as our own, that is the beginning of kindness.”
― Conrado De Quiros, Tongues on Fire

“You know,' he went on, 'novels are the fruit of the human illusion that we can understand our fellow man. But what do we know about each other?'
'Nothing,' said Bibi.
'True,' said Joujou.
The professor of philosophy acquiesced with a nod of the head.
'The only thing we can do,' said Banaka, 'is to give an account of our own selves. Anything else is an abuse of power. Anything else is a lie.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting