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Mi año de descanso y relajación

by Ottessa Moshfegh

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Alasse’s Quotes

“How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

tags: criticism, critics

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“His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.”
― Terry Pratchett, Maskerade

tags: ignorance

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“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
― Philip Roth

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“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country

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“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
― George Orwell

tags: courage, truth

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