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“¿De dónde venía aquella insatisfacción de la vida, aquella instantánea corrupción de las cosas en las que se apoyaba?...”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“Why can’t you just understand that not having a plan is my plan?” Chris implored. “I don’t know exactly where I’ll be. That’s the whole point, the freedom of it. I’ve been so structured with school and sports and work—everything has been scheduled and laid out for me. I just want to get out of that mundane existence and purely enjoy life for a while. I’ll decide on the fly where I want to go next.”
― The Wild Truth: The secrets that drove Chris McCandless into the wild
― The Wild Truth: The secrets that drove Chris McCandless into the wild
“Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
― The Rainmaker
― The Rainmaker
“You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.”
― Why I Am Not a Christian
― Why I Am Not a Christian
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