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“what we desperately do want to avoid is not merely suffering but suffering without meaning.”
― Eric Metaxas, Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life

“I suppose you wish to know what I am going to say to President Roosevelt on my return,” he said. This was an understatement. Churchill was desperate to know how well his courtship of Hopkins was progressing, and what indeed he would tell the president. “Well,” Hopkins said, “I’m going to quote you one verse from that Book of Books in the truth of which Mr. Johnston’s mother and my own Scottish mother were brought up—” Hopkins dropped his voice to a near whisper and recited a passage from the Bible’s Book of Ruth: “Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.” Then, softly, he added: “Even to the end.”
― Erik Larson, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

“Blaise rather liked the way that manners had been pared down to their essentials.”
― Gore Vidal, Hollywood: American Chronicle Series

“"La imaginación es un modo fundamental de pensar, un medio esencial de convertirse en humano y seguir siéndolo. Es una herramienta mental. En consecuencia, tenemos que aprender"”
― Ursula K. Le Guin