Andres

“Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“These, gentlemen, are my rules: if I don't succeed, I keep trying; if I do succeed, I keep quiet; and in any case I don't undermine anyone. I'm not an intriguer, and I'm proud of it. I wouldn't make a good diplomat. They also say, gentlemen, that the bird flies to the fowler. That's true, and I'm ready to agree: but who is the fowler here, and who is the bird? That's still a question, gentlemen!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double

“¡Querida, preciosa, inolvidable infancia! ¿Por qué será que este tiempo, que se fue para siempre y que no volverá nunca, parecía más luminoso, más festivo y más rico de lo que había sido en realidad?”
― Anton Chéjov

“My soul has been haunted by something like those forgotten melodies that come back to us at twilight, during those slow hours in which memory, like a ghost among ruins, stalks our thoughts.”
― Gustave Flaubert, The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1830-1857