Freedom
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there are few things harder to imagine than other people’s conversations about yourself.
“Me pregunto si, quizá sin darnos cuenta, vamos buscando los libros que necesitamos leer. O si los propios libros, que son seres inteligentes, detectan a sus lectores y se hacen notar. En el fondo todo libro es el I Ching. Vas, lo abres y ahí está, ahí estás.”
― Talking to Ourselves
― Talking to Ourselves
“You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
“One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.”
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“Quizá esté en la naturaleza de la amistad, en cuanto opuesta al amor, que la consideremos una continuidad que no hay que alimentar y de la que nos alejemos cuanto nos apetece, convencidos de que, al igual que el afecto de nuestra madre, estará allí para recibirnos en el momento en que regresemos. Pero, ay, no es lo que ocurre con la amistad, que a la postre se asemeja más al amor de lo que la mayoría de la gente admite.”
― Martin Bauman: or, A Sure Thing
― Martin Bauman: or, A Sure Thing
“His life has been lived, so far, within narrow limits and he is quite naïve about most kinds of experience; he fears it and yet is wildly eager for it. To reassure himself, he converts it into epic myth as fast as it happens. He is forever play-acting.”
― Down There on a Visit
― Down There on a Visit
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