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Miranda Diaz

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Miranda’s Quotes

“...men are as vulnerable to joy as they are to suffering.”
― Michel Bernanos, The Other Side of the Mountain

tags: joy, suffering

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“If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

tags: cynicism, humor, life

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“Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived?”
― Stefan Zweig, Chess Story

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“Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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“—Pero, ¿Por qué no acepta que nunca ya volverá a enamorarse?
Era cierto; yo no quiero aceptarlo porque me parece que perdería el entusiasmo por todo, que la esperanza vaga de enamorarme me da un poco de confianza en la vida. Ya no tengo otra cosa que esperar.”
― Juan Carlos Onetti, El pozo

tags: loneliness

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