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Mi año de descanso y relajación

by Ottessa Moshfegh

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Alasse’s Quotes

“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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“Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.”
― W. B. Yeats

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“When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: book-lovers, bookworms, heavenly-rewards, judgment, reading

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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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“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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