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“Si el honor y la sabiduría y la felicidad no son para mí, que sean para otros. Que el cielo exista, aunque mi lugar sea el infierno”
― Ficciones
― Ficciones
“Muchas veces me ha pasado eso: luchar insensatamente contra un obstáculo que me impide hacer algo que juzgo necesario o conveniente, aceptar con rabia la derrota y finalmente, un tiempo después, comprobar que el destino tenía razón.”
― El túnel
― El túnel
“El baño de sangre coincidió con un período de euforia económica para la clase dominante: ¿es lícito confundir la prosperidad de una clase con el bienestar de un país?”
― Las venas abiertas de América Latina
― Las venas abiertas de América Latina
“In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.
[Dedication to Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos]”
― Cosmos
[Dedication to Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos]”
― Cosmos
“Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. It's smell and it's color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”
― The Naval Treaty - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
― The Naval Treaty - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
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