“If you love others, life will of necessity be tragic, beautiful, but tragic.”
― A Subtle Agency
― A Subtle Agency
“Power doesn't make a man wise.”
― Rule of Wolves
― Rule of Wolves
“Solamente hay una manera de leer, que es huronear en bibliotecas y librerías, tomar libros que llamen la atención, leyendo solamente esos, echándolos a un lado cuando aburren, saltándose las partes pesadas y nunca, absolutamente nunca, leer algo por sentido del deber o porque forme parte de una moda o de un movimiento. Recuerde que el libro que le aburre cuando tiene veinte o treinta años, le abrirá perspectivas cuando llegue a los cuarenta o a los cincuenta años, o viceversa. No lea un libro que no sea para usted el momento oportuno.”
― The Golden Notebook
― The Golden Notebook
“Cualquier tarugo miserable que no tiene nada en el mundo de lo que pueda sentirse orgulloso, recurre al último recurso, vanagloriarse de la nación a la que casualmente pertenece.”
― AFORISMOS SOBRE LA SABIDURIA EN LA VIDA
― AFORISMOS SOBRE LA SABIDURIA EN LA VIDA
“And suddenly she was at him, after him with her fists, her struggling weight; he squeezed her against him, regretfully conscious even now, as her pinned fists flailed his shoulders and her face crumpled into contorted weeping and the sharp smell of perfume was scalded from her, that the expression, of serene superiority, of a beautiful secret continually tasted, was still on his face.”
― Couples
― Couples
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