“No existe ningún recuerdo por intenso que sea que no se apague...”
― Pedro Páramo
― Pedro Páramo
“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“There is no identity without memory.
if we do not remember what we are, we don't know what we are. Over the centuries, we've seen that when a group or nation attempts to subjugate another group or nation, the first thing they do is erase the traces of its memory in order to reconfigure its identity.”
― A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern-day Iraq
if we do not remember what we are, we don't know what we are. Over the centuries, we've seen that when a group or nation attempts to subjugate another group or nation, the first thing they do is erase the traces of its memory in order to reconfigure its identity.”
― A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern-day Iraq
“Y allá en el fondo está la muerte si no corremos y llegamos antes y comprendemos que ya no importa.”
― Historias de cronopios y de famas
― Historias de cronopios y de famas
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