Toni

“Goodbye blue Monday.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
― Roberto Bolano

“Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our actions. The things in our control are by nature free, unrestrained, unhindered; but those not in our control are weak, slavish, restrained, belonging to others. Remember, then, that if you suppose that things which are slavish by nature are also free, and that what belongs to others is your own, then you will be hindered. You will lament, you will be disturbed, and you will find fault both with gods and men. But if you suppose that only to be your own which is your own, and what belongs to others such as it really is, then no one will ever compel you or restrain you. Further, you will find fault with no one or accuse no one. You will do nothing against your will. No one will hurt you, you will have no enemies, and you not be harmed.”
― Epictetus, Enchiridion and Selections from the Discourses

“Conocemos el hambre, estamos acostumbrados al hambre: sentimos hambre dos, tres veces al día. No hay nada más frecuente, más constante, más presente en nuestras vidas que el hambre –y, al mismo tiempo, para la mayoría de nosotros, nada más lejos que el hambre verdadero.

Conocemos el hambre, estamos acostumbrados al hambre: sentimos hambre dos, tres veces al día. Pero entre ese hambre repetido, cotidiano, repetida y cotidianamente saciado que vivimos, y el hambre desesperante de quienes no pueden con él, hay un mundo de diferencias y desigualdades. El hambre ha sido, desde siempre, la razón de cambios sociales, progresos técnicos, revoluciones, contrarrevoluciones. Nada ha influido más en la historia de la humanidad. Ninguna enfermedad, ninguna guerra ha matado más gente. Ninguna plaga sigue siendo tan letal y, al mismo tiempo, tan evitable como el hambre.”
― Martín Caparrós, El hambre