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“A slow nature such as Maurice's appears insensitive, for it needs time even to feel. Its instinct is to assume that nothing either for good or evil has happened, and to resist the invader. Once gripped, it feels acutely, and its sensations in love are particularly profound. Given time, it can know and impart ecstasy; given time, it can sink to the heart of Hell.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“En épocas difíciles, me habían dicho desde niña, lee, aprende, prepárate, recurre a la literatura.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking