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“Leemos porque estamos solos y queremos compañía. Leemos también porque hay mucha gente alrededor y queremos estar solos.
We read because we are alone and want company.
We also read because we are surrounded by people and want to be alone.”
― Constancia de la lluvia: Diario 2013-2014
We read because we are alone and want company.
We also read because we are surrounded by people and want to be alone.”
― Constancia de la lluvia: Diario 2013-2014
“No olvides que el escritor es el único animal de rapiña que se alimenta de sus entrañas.
(Don´t forget that writers are the only predators who feed on their own entrails).”
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(Don´t forget that writers are the only predators who feed on their own entrails).”
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“¡Y yo, que amo la civilización moderna, yo que beso con el alma las máquinas,
yo el ingeniero, yo el civilizado, yo el educado en el extranjero,
me gustaría tener otra vez ante mi vista sólo veleros y barcos de madera,
no saber de otra vida marítima que la antigua vida de los mares!
Porque los mares antiguos son la Distancia Absoluta
el Puro Lejos, liberado del peso de lo Actual...”
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yo el ingeniero, yo el civilizado, yo el educado en el extranjero,
me gustaría tener otra vez ante mi vista sólo veleros y barcos de madera,
no saber de otra vida marítima que la antigua vida de los mares!
Porque los mares antiguos son la Distancia Absoluta
el Puro Lejos, liberado del peso de lo Actual...”
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“We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve, but to strive.”
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
“We forest officers, who acquiesced in the extinguishment of the bear, knew a local rancher who had plowed up a dagger engraved with the name of one of Coronado´s captains. We spoke harshly of the Spaniards, who, in their zeal for gold and converts, had needlessly extinguished the native Indians. It did not occur to us that we, too, were the captains of an invasion too sure of its righteousness.”
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
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