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“I imagine that if he were still alive and I told him now that I wish I could preserve the older memories, erase what they have been replaced by, he would tell me that to be a witness to history is a burden for the chosen.”
Yasmine El Rashidi, Chronicle of a Last Summer

Durian Sukegawa
“If all you ever see is reality, you just want to die. The only way to get over barriers, she said, is to live in the spirit of already being over them.”
Durian Sukegawa, Sweet Bean Paste

Javier Marías
“For most people, we are only superficial beings, a sketch, a few scrawled lines.”
Javier Marías, Los enamoramientos

Victor Hugo
“And then he reflected that the two houses of God had received him in succession at the two critical moments of his life, the first when every door was closed and human society repelled him; the second, when human society again howled upon his track, and the galleys once more gaped for him; and that, had it not been for the first, he should have fallen back into crime, and, had it not been for the second, into punishment.”
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Oscar Wilde
“But he never fell into the error of arresting his intellectual development by any formal acceptance of creed or system, or of mistaking, for a house in which to live, an inn that is but suitable for the sojourn of the night, or for a few hours of a night in which there are no stars and the moon is in travail.”
Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray

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