Fabio Almada

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“decena de testimonios que recogí en el Vaticano y en la Conferencia Episcopal Italiana, el sida hizo estragos en la santa sede y el episcopado italiano en los años ochenta y noventa. Un secreto que lleva mucho tiempo silenciado. Muchos curas, monsignori y cardenales murieron de las secuelas de la enfermedad. Algunos enfermos revelaron su contagio y su sida en confesión (como me confirma, sin citar nombres, uno de los confesores de San Pedro). A otros se lo diagnosticaron a raíz del análisis anual de sangre, que es obligatorio para el personal del Vaticano (pero no”
― Frédéric Martel‏, Sodoma: Poder y escándalo en el Vaticano

“This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom – we cannot avoid being shaped by the past. But some freedom is better than none.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

“That is the secret of happiness and virtue -- liking what you've got to do.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World