César García

“Oh literature is a wonderful thing, Varenka, a very wonderful thing: I discovered that from being with those people the day before yesterday. It is a profound thing. It strengthens people’s hearts and instructs them,… Literature is a picture, or rather in a certain sense both a picture and a mirror; it is an expression of emotion, a subtle form of criticism, a didactic lesson and a document…”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Poor Folk

“There aren't many such enthusiasts born. The average person is not especially curious about the world. He is alive, and being somehow obliged to deal with this condition, feels the less effort it requires, the better. Whereas learning about the world is labor, and a great all-consuming one at that. Most people develop quite antithetical talents, in fact - to look without seeing, to listen without hearing, mainly to preserve onself within oneself.”
― Ryszard Kapuściński, Travels with Herodotus

“Cada vez que alguien cometa una falta contra ti, medita al punto que concepto del mal o del bien tenia al cometer dicha falta.
Porque, una vez que hayas examinado eso, tendrás compasión de él y ni te sorprenderás ni te irritarás con él ya que comprenderás tú también el mismo concepto del bien que él, u otro similar en consecuencia es preciso que le perdones pero aun si no llegas a compartir su concepto del bien y del mal, serás mas fácilmente benévolo con su extravío”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights