Amélie Mejía

“Qué fácil callar, ser serena y objetiva con los seres que no me interesan verdaderamente, a cuyo amor o amistad no aspiro. Soy entonces calma, cautelosa, perfecta dueña de mí misma. Pero con los poquísimos seres que me interesan… Allí está la cuestión absurda: soy una convulsión, un grito, sangre aullando.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, Diarios

“Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.”
― Sigmund Freud

“El 10 de abril: <> Bueno, ¿y qué era? Todavía no lo sé. Me atraían sus ojos, su voz, su cintura, su boca, sus manos, su risa, su cansancio, su timidez, su llanto, su franqueza, su pena, su confianza, su ternura, su sueño, su paso, sus suspiros. Pero ninguno de estos rasgos bastaba para atraerme compulsiva, totalmente. Cada atractivo se apoyaba en otro. Ella me atraía como un todo, como una suma insustituible de atractivos, acaso sustituibles.”
― Mario Benedetti, La tregua

“Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself. If you want to remain happy, just remain stupid. Authentic masters are never happy; happiness is a category of slaves.”
― Slavoj Žižek