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Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology

by Alfred North Whitehead

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Feb 18, 2026 05:37PM

“Ninguna definición compleja de lo que es o podrá ser la fotografía atenuará jamás el placer deparado por una foto de un hecho inesperado que capta a mitad de la acción un fotógrafo alerta.”
― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

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“One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: friendship, huxley, suffering

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“La ética -dijo- se imagina que los médicos somos de palo.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

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“Queremos que el fotógrafo sea un espía en la casa del amor y de la muerte y que los retratados no sean conscientes de la cámara, se encuentren con "la guardia baja".”
― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

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“my heart has more rooms in it than a whore house”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

tags: humour

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