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Las guerras secretas

by Esteban Bentancour

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Aug 12, 2025 10:05AM

“I believe for most of us - for me, certainly - what's below the skin is more worth looking at than what's outside it. Turn me inside out and I'd be quite a handsome man!”
― Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent

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“If you're trapped in a room, and nobody is coming to save you, what can you do? You have to bang on the walls and break the windows. You have to climb out and save yourself. It's obvious, Li-ling, that crying doesn't help a person live.”
― Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing

tags: crying, independence, self-help

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“El instante más miserable, furioso y horrible es cuando veo a través de mi espíritu humano las crueles acciones que he cometido y reflexiono sobre mi propio destino”
― Atsushi Nakajima, El poeta que rugió a la luna y se convirtió en tigre

tags: being-human, humanity, self-awareness

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“The fun comes in telling them yourself—something I warmly encourage you to do, you person reading this. Read the stories in this book, then make them your own,”
― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

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“Cleverness, he thinks, will get you nowhere; it is only the stupid, the brilliantly stupid, who will inherit the earth.”
― Ian McGuire, The North Water

tags: sad-but-true

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