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Nuestros deseos son nuestras condenas. Y duran toda la vida.

…si bien resulta útil saber a quiénes quieren las personas, es mucho más provechoso tener claro a quienes odian. Los enemigos de mis enemigos son mis mejores amigos.

Y es que, Vuestras Mercedes, Dios perdona el pecado, pero no el escándalo. Así que, para recibir la divina gracia, a menudo sirve más una boca cerrada que un corazón arrepentido.

He ahí otra cosa útil que me ha enseñado mi madre: conocer los pecados de la gente ayuda mucho a ganarse su apoyo. O como dice ella: «Más ayuda la gente por vergüenza que por amabilidad».

Solo existimos en la medida en que los demás nos reconocen. Y desaparecemos cuando ellos no saben a qué grupo adscribirnos.

…el demonio se disfraza de bueno para convencer a los hombres y, por eso, dicen que el camino al infierno está empedrado de buenas intenciones.

…el hombre es en esencia cobarde y no le importa que paguen otros por sus faltas si se ahorra el castigo él.

El solo hecho de que no puedas ver algo no significa que no sea real.

Nothing more inhuman than a human being. Not just the rulers and politicians. . . all the selfish evil of everyday people, too.

Heroism’s all well and good until guts are spilled. What use is a flag or fancy words when you’re a good-looking corpse?

It’s only when you’ve been without something that you truly appreciate how wonderful it is.

If the sun isn’t shinning, make the most of rain.

The best we can do is live. Are you listening? The only way to beat them is by not dying. So shut up and survive, you miserable cow.

“Stories are food and drink and life. . . .”

“Stories are just made-up stuff anyway.”
“Says who? I think they’re a different way of telling the truth.”

Clothes show who you are, or who you want to be.

There is always some war in which a man can die, some cause to which a man can give his life, and as life had no pleasure for him, so death had no terror.

Life to him meant action, rather than thought.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

Nemo me impune lacessit.

Only those who’ve swum grief’s waters know how to navigate them for others.

There’s power when you have nothing left to lose.

Intelligence without confidence is much like fame without fortune.

“Un amant qui craint les voleurs
N’est point digne d’amour.”

Even a virtue can become a weapon for wrongdoing if it is manipulated by an evil force, just as a disability can serve as a mark of heroism and strength.

Our twenty-first-century heroes’ weapons were courage and strength beyond any ordinary mortal’s wildest expectation, courage and strength on the scale of those exemplified by those old Greek gods.

…becoming oneself is always seen as a crime against the masses, and act of rebellion against the establishment.

If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.