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Es común que en las noches de insomnio sea teóricamente más decidido que durante el día, en los hechos.

Las pasiones de los hombres, y su inteligencia al servicio de ellas, logran torcer las mas rectas intenciones y leyes.

You have to learn to be ruthless if you dedicate yourself to the hunting and killing of ruthless creatures.

«Nos estamos pudriendo vivos.»

Sobre el error que había cometido, ya reflexionó todo lo que se podía reflexionar, se arrepintió todo lo que se podía arrepentir y sufrió todo lo que se podía sufrir. Ahora, solo quedaba mirar hacia delante e ir haciendo las cosas como era debido.

Enthusiastic soldiers with no fighting to do soon get bored and start thinking dangerous thoughts, like how much better they could run the country.

We’re really good at it, Teppic thought. Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

It was amazing what you could do with a hole in the ground.

Many a prostitute lives a nobler life than a successful business man.

Man is made of flesh and spirit both, and it should be philosophy’s business to see that the mind and body live harmoniously together, that there be a reconciliation between the two.

Heed, children — we creatures of the night were not made to beget heirs. Our women can't give birth and our men can't sire children. This is the way it's been since the first vampire walked by the light of the moon, and the way we thought it would always be.

"May the luck of the vampires be with you,"

The thread of life is as tough as an ox tendon, so even after I lost you, it had to go on. I had to make myself eat, make myself work, forcing down each day like a mouthful of cold rice, even if it stuck in my throat.

"Her death was every bit as quiet and understated as she herself had been."

Una droga mas dañina que las mal llamadas heroicas se introdujo en la cultura nacional: el dinero fácil. Prosperó la idea de que la ley es el mayor obstáculo para la felicidad, que de nada sirve aprender a leer y a escribir, que se vive mejor y más seguro como delincuente que como gente de bien.

Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment.

Había una infinita miseria en lo de verse apaleado por un negro, tan negro como uno.

Why do you think there are so many stories of ghosts trying to get people to kill themselves?
Because they miss having someone there, someone warm

Do I really want to spend the rest of my life eating salt beef and porridge with murderers and thieves?

Por tus ojos, linda, Dios me guarde, abandonaría a mi mujer.

We would not be killing. We would merely supply the opportunity for people to die.

Pero queres crer que unha moza con esas tetas vai mirar para un vello?

One man straightened his tie, and another ran his fingers through his hair. What really got me was that the oldest guy in the place actually checked his fly to make sure it was zipped. They're all crazy about her now

Qué extraño que un cementerio pudiera estar tan poblado y resultase, no obstante, el lugar más solitario de la tierra.

Dónde estaban los refuerzos de emergencia, la sociedad, todo eso que pese a todo, funcionaba tan bien es esta Suecia del año 2002?

Y fue aquí, aprendiendo de Barcelona, observando a sus gentes generosas, que descubrí mi auténtica vocación: yo quería ser argentino.

You think yourself educated, but all you are is a repository of dead lives. You don't yet have a life of your own.

Just as individuals are born, mature, breed, and die, so do societies and civilizations and governments.

I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.

They passed me within six inches, without a glance, with that complete, deathlike indifference of unhappy savages.