Ayban Gabriyel

“Pag di mo na nadarama'ng mga kapakinabangan ng buhay at ang buhay ay wala nang kapakinabangan sa'yo, dapat ka nang mamatay. 'Yong pinakamabuting maaaring mangyari sa'yo, sa gano'ng kalagayan.”
― Edgardo M. Reyes, Sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag

“We live through myriads of seconds, yet it is always one, just one, that casts our entire inner world into turmoil, the second when (as Stendhal has described it) the internal inflorescence, already steeped in every kind of fluid, condenses and crystallizes—a magical second, like the moment of generation, and like that moment concealed in the warm interior of the individual life, invisible, untouchable, beyond the reach of feeling, a secret experienced alone.”
― Anonymous

“We read because they teach us about people, we can see ourselves in them,in their problems.And by seeing ourselves in them, we clarify ourselves, we explain ourselves to ourselves, so we can live with ourselves...”
― F. Sionil José, Ermita

“We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to live honestly with ourselves because we are human, because we are shackled by custom, by obligations and we accept compromise only in the light of our conscience, answerable as we are only to ourselves.”
― F. Sionil José, Mass