Beatriz Sedor

“Look at those numbers running. Money makes time. It used to be the other way around. Clock time accelerated the rise of capitalism. People stopped thinking about eternity. They began to concentrate on hours, measurable hours, man-hours, using labor more efficiently.”
― Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis

“Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.”
― Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis

“The Ladies of the Sacred Heart hung a thousand veils between their little charges and reality. Thérèse despised them for confounding virtue with ignorance.”
― François Mauriac, Thérèse Desqueyroux

“The really pure in heart know nothing of what goes on around them each day, each night; never realize what poisonous weeds spring up beneath their childish feet.”
― François Mauriac, Thérèse Desqueyroux