Nazareth

“None of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which a person has only to go look up as though we were a book of specifications or a last testament; our social personality is a creation of the minds of others. Even the very simple act that we call "seeing a person we know" is in part an intellectual one. We fill the physical appearance of the individual we see with all the notions we have about him, and of the total picture that we form for ourselves, these notions certainly occupy the greater part.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“Aparecerá la mujer cuyo nombre ya no significará sólo algo opuesto al hombre, sino algo propio, independiente. Nada que haga pensar en complemento ni en límite, sino tan sólo en vida y en ser: el Humano femenino...”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“If you couldn’t understand something without an explanation, you couldn’t understand it with an explanation.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Ya no podía reír ni llorar, mentirse ni enfrentarse a la verdad, dejarse caer completamente ni tampoco enderezarse, quedarse ni marcharse, sentirse judía ni tampoco ya alemana, vivir ni morir.”
― Angelika Schrobsdorff, You Are Not Like Other Mothers