Javier

“it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily - no hourly - and are nevertheless compelled to keep up the pose of an indifferent stranger, neither greeting nor addressing each other, whether out of etiquette or their own whim.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“Sí, a veces la idea más delirante, la que parece más imposible, se le clava a uno en la cabeza con tal fuerza que acaba por juzgarla realizable... Más aún, si esa idea va unida a un deseo fuerte y apasionado acaba uno por considerarla a veces como algo fatal, necesario, predestinado, como algo que es imposible que no sea, que no ocurra.”
― Fedor Dostoievski, The Gambler