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- Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base,…
- A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.
- People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a…
- In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.
- Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region…
- Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams and desires of humanity, and in the formulation…
- We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has…
- Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.
- . . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists…
- The day before is what we bring to the day we're actually living through, life is a matter of carrying along all those days-before just…
- Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.
- As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished.
- Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.
- ... the best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.
- The only miracle we can perform is to go on living, said the woman, to preserve the fragility of life from day to day, as…
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