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“Words are like knives... If you use it the wrong way it transforms into a bad weapon.”
― Detektif Conan Vol. 54
― Detektif Conan Vol. 54
“while it's true in tennis, love is zero. but zero is also where everything starts. nothing would ever be born if we didn't depart from there. nothing would be ever achieved.”
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“Rompí a llorar. Me encanta esa expresión. No se dice rompí a comer o rompí a caminar. Rompes a llorar o a reír. Creo que vale la pena hacerse añicos por esos sentimientos".”
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“Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how Shakespeare wrote, I thought, looking at Antony and Cleopatra; and when people compare Shakespeare and Jane Austen, they may mean that the minds of both had consumed all impediments; and for that reason we do not know Jane Austen and we do not know Shakespeare, and for that reason Jane Austen pervades every word that she wrote, and so does Shakespeare.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people’s mouths. — I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it — but fear I must.”
― Jane Austen's Letters
― Jane Austen's Letters
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