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The unsheltered sea heaves and heaves and blanches into foam. It sets me thinking of some tied-up monster straining at its bonds, in front of whose gaping jaws we build our homes on the shore and watch it lashing its tail.
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
― How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don't Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up
― How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don't Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up
“The history of the majority has a beginning and an end. At the beginning the majority eats what it’s given. And at the end it spends its entire life trying to solve the problem of choice.”
― The Doomed City
― The Doomed City
“yet I also yearn for a little sheltered nook; like a bird with its tiny nest for a dwelling, and the vast sky for flight.”
― Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore
― Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore
“No hay dictaduras malas y dictaduras buenas, todas son igualmente abominables, como tampoco hay torturas atroces y torturas beneficiosas.”
― Antes del fin
― Antes del fin
“Sólo lo que se hace apasionadamente merece nuestro afán, lo demás no vale la pena.”
― Antes del fin
― Antes del fin
Mauricio’s 2025 Year in Books
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