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“El verdadero artista -dijo entonces- no crea el arte mismo como objetivo final. Crea el arte para el hombre, para traerle alegría, para moldear su espíritu, para rescatarlo de sus pesares. Dicho en otra forma: el arte ligado a una actitud social...”
Arturo Azuela, Estuche para dos violines

Stefan Zweig
“People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.”
Stefan Zweig, Chess Story

Haruki Murakami
“Ideas are like beards. Men don’t have them until they grow up”
Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Jonathan Lopez
“When the scientific experts finished giving their testimony, the presiding judge asked Van Meegeren if he had any comments...He then added dryly that, from now on, the faking of old-master paintings would, of course, be impossible.”
Jonathan Lopez, The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren

Susanna Clarke
“He was a man who knew there were such things as jokes in the world or people would not write about them, but had never actually been introduced to one or shaken its hand.”
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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