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“Towers are monuments in decline, you only have to build them and someone comes and knocks them down.”
― Sangre en el ojo
― Sangre en el ojo
“Explain that to me! Cows? I sighed buying time to think. Cows or oxen or donkeys or idiot peasants or whatever you call thse damned animals that almost killed us! They didn’t have lights and they were going very, very slowly through an impossible fog. And wait, joder, I can’t believe it, there ahead of us is a truck right across the road, trying to make a U-turn! Are all Chileans crazy?”
― Sangre en el ojo
― Sangre en el ojo
“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
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“Don't ever pray for love and health, Mother said. Or money. If G-d hears what you really want he will not give it to you. Guaranteed. When my father left my mother said, get down on your knees and pray for spoons”
― Prayers for the Stolen
― Prayers for the Stolen
“Not everything which happens to us occurs with reference to something about us.”
― The Consolations of Philosophy
― The Consolations of Philosophy
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