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"Ay dios estos cuentos hacen que aguante la respiración en el final. Empiezan tan tranquilos, tan lentos y luego la autora toma una bocanada de aire gigante, aguanta la respiración y escribe un final perfecto y es ahí donde todo vuelve a estar en paz." — Nov 20, 2025 09:19AM
"Ay dios estos cuentos hacen que aguante la respiración en el final. Empiezan tan tranquilos, tan lentos y luego la autora toma una bocanada de aire gigante, aguanta la respiración y escribe un final perfecto y es ahí donde todo vuelve a estar en paz." — Nov 20, 2025 09:19AM
Last Days
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And listened with all the straining concentration the ears of the frightened can command. But she also listened with the resignation of the weary.
“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
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“I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“The misery of having no time to read a thousand glorious books.”
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“When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”
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