Félix J. Palma Quotes

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• Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been…
• The most terrifying thing is sometimes not what we see, but rather what we are forced to imagine.
• We are the authors of our own fate-we write it each day with every one of our actions.
• Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore.
• True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge
• Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him from…
• I don't think traveling back in time on an empty stomach is a good idea.
• If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at all.…
• He had learned from experience that what he succeeded in putting down on paper was only ever a pale reflection of what he had imagined,…
• ...the wrath of God pales beside that of man.
• I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books...True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground…
• Writers perform an extremely important role: they make others dream, those who are unable to dream for themselves. And everyone needs to dream. Could there…
• Striving to achieve a dream is never a waste of time.
• The paths that we choose don't always take us where we want to go. Sometimes they take us where we need to go.
• ...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me…

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