Alejandra
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Luck and risk are both the reality that every outcome in life is guided by forces other than individual effort. They are so similar that you can’t believe in one without equally respecting the other. They both happen because the world is
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“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― Animal Farm
― Animal Farm
“Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .”
― The Godfather
― The Godfather
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. "Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does." They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.”
― Brave New World Revisited
― Brave New World Revisited
“Si quedaba alguna esperanza, debía estar en los proles, porque solo en esas masas despreciadas, que constituían el ochenta y cinco por ciento de la población de Oceanía, podía generarse la fuerza necesaria para destruir al Partido. Este no podía derrocarse desde dentro. Sus enemigos, si es que los había, no tenían forma de unirse o siquiera de reconocerse mutuamente. Incluso en caso de que existiera la legendaria Hermandad —lo cual no era del todo imposible— resultaba inconcebible que sus miembros pudieran reunirse en grupos de más de dos o tres. La rebelión se limitaba a un cruce de miradas, una inflexión de la voz o, como mucho, una palabra susurrada ocasionalmente. En cambio los proles, si pudieran ser conscientes de su fuerza, no tendrían necesidad de conspirar. Bastaría con que se encabritaran como un caballo que se sacude las moscas. Si quisieran, podrían volar el Partido en pedazos a la mañana siguiente. Tarde o temprano tenía que ocurrírseles. Y sin embargo…”
― 1984
― 1984
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