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“privation is the cause of appetite”
― Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Writings
― Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Writings
“and it is not enough in the world for a wise brain to be ridiculed, it must also be wounded & mistreated; a head that is a treasury of wisdom should not expect any crown other than one of thorns. What garland can human wisdom expect when it sees what divine wisdom received?”
― Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Writings
― Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Writings
“El clavo que sobresale siempre recibe un martillazo.” The nail that sticks out always gets hit by a hammer. We”
― Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works
― Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
― No Man Is an Island
― No Man Is an Island
“The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said.”
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