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“...a new force given to individual initiatives, a need to smash things up, to leap over fences, to break laws – all this, at the start, made the war acceptable. It was confused with freedom, and discipline was then accepted in the belief that it was lacking.”
― Fear
― Fear
“Sentía que dentro del pecho le pataleaba la emoción, como un ser vivo más grande que el seno que lo contiene, y se desahogaba con risas frenéticas, o con repentinos y ardientes chorretazos de lágrimas. Ni era posible decir si aquello era en ambos felicidad o una pena lacerante, porque uno y otro se sentían como heridos por un aguijón que les llegaba al alma, y atormentados por el deseo de un más allá.”
― Tristana
― Tristana
“...his heart had positively begun to beat to the time of suspense...The unspoken had come up, and there was a crisis - neither could have said how long it lasted - during which they were reduced, for all interchange, to looking at each other on a quite an inordinate scale.”
― The Golden Bowl
― The Golden Bowl
“Let me indicate here how men can prove that their words are their own: let them put their preaching into practice.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“Nuestro romanticismo, nuestra exaltación, no nos parecieron absurdos. Nos sorprendimos con hambre atrasada, el hambre espiritual, noble y pura que mueve el mundo, y por la cual existimos, y existirán miles de generaciones después de nosotros. Te reconocí mía y me declaraste tuyo. Esto es vivir; lo demás, ¿qué es?”
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