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La vergüenza
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Ahora, después de haber conseguido describir esta escena, tengo la impresión de que se trata de un suceso banal, mucho más frecuente en las familias de lo que entonces me hubiera podido imaginar. Quizá la escritura convierta en normal
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“I loved them: my own bright dead things. I’m thirty-five and remember all that I’ve done wrong. Yesterday I was nice, but in truth I resented the contentment of the field. Why must we practice this surrender? What I mean is: there are days I still want to kill the carrots because I can.”
― Bright Dead Things: Poems
― Bright Dead Things: Poems
“Es, por cierto, innegable que los que ejercen con más éxito el arte de vivir —gente muchas veces desconocida, dicho sea de paso— se ingenian de algún modo para sincronizar los sesenta o setenta tiempos distintos que laten simultáneamente en cada organismo normal, de suerte que al dar las once todos resuenan al unísono, y el presente no es una brusca interrupción ni se hunde en el pasado. De ellos es lícito decir que viven exactamente los sesenta y ocho o setenta y dos años que les adjudica su lápida.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“If you live a long life and get to the end of it without ever once having felt crushingly depressed, then you probably haven’t been paying attention.”
― Every Brilliant Thing
― Every Brilliant Thing
“I’ve discovered that there are two ways of losing your belief: some people lose God when they find themselves; some people lose God when they lose themselves.”
― The Discomfort of Evening
― The Discomfort of Evening
“I know that many men and even women are afraid and angry when women do speak, because in this barbaric society, when women speak truly they speak subversively - they can't help it: if you're underneath, if you're kept down, you break out, you subvert. We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
That's what I want - to hear you erupting. You young Mount St. Helenses who don't know the power in you - I want to hear you.”
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That's what I want - to hear you erupting. You young Mount St. Helenses who don't know the power in you - I want to hear you.”
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