Alma

“A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Pero tú y tus amigas rara vez os acercáis a un pobre para saber de su misma boca la causa de su miseria... ni para observar qué clase de miseria le aqueja, pues hay algunas tan extraordinarias, que no se alivian con la fácil limosna del ochavo... ni tampoco con el mendrugo de pan....”
― Benito Pérez Galdós, Marianela

“So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Irimiás: God is not made manifest in language, you dope. He's not manifest in anything. He doesn't exist... God was a mistake. I've long understood there is zero difference between me and a bug, or a bug and a river, or a river and a voice shouting above it. There's no sense or meaning in anything. It's nothing but a network of dependency under enormous fluctuating pressures. It's only our imaginations, not our senses, that continually confront us with failure and the false belief that we can raise ourselves by our own bootstraps from the miserable pulp of delay. There's no escaping that, stupid.”
― László Krasznahorkai, Satantango