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“Infinito —y no histórico— es Aquiles por su cólera y su amor, independientemente de que haya o no existido; como infinito será Cristo por… — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
“Aparentemente lo que yo inspiraba en Kyle Hamilton era un trastorno de múltiples personalidades.” — Kelly Oram Copy Share Image
“p.45: Es preferible acertar aproximadamente a equivocarse precisamente.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ahora que finalmente me he enfrentado a las pesadillas que acosaban mis noches puedo aceptar el fantasma de mi pasado.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Wallace would have none of it. In reviewing The Descent of Man he wrote, ‘Are we to believe that the actions of an ever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He'd watched a falcon fall down the long blue wall of the mountain and break with the keel of its breastbone the midmost from… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Si no puedes aceptar lo que es, eso implica que nunca puedes aceptar a las personas como son.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills the ice-cube tray, who unloads the clean dishwasher, who occasionally pees in the shower, whose eyelid twitches on first dates; that only we take casualness terribly seriously; that only we fashion supplication into courtesy; that only… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The paradoxical intercourse of audience and celebrity. The suppressed awareness that the whole reason ordinary people found celebrity fascinating was that they were not,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to those worst dreams' form itself: the sudden intra-dream realization that the nightmares' very essence and center has been with you all along, even awake: it's just been ... overlooked ; and then that horrific interval between… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
“He cranks the condo’s AC way down at night and still most mornings wakes up soaked, fetally curled, entombed in that kind of psychic… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we recoil from the dull. Maybe it's because dullness is intrinsically painful; maybe that's where phrases like 'deadly dull' or 'excruciatingly dull' come from. But there might be more to it. Maybe dullness is associated with psychic… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
“If you’re subjected to enough great salesmen and salespitches and marketing concepts for long enough—like from your earliest Saturday-morning cartoons, let’s say—it is only a matter of time before you start believing deep down that everything is sales and marketing, and that whenever somebody seems like they care about you or about some noble idea or cause, that person is… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
“Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“She almost reminds the engineer of certain types in high school whom everyone adored because you sensed it made no difference to them whether… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To be, in a word, unborable… It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“No es la persona la que elige su destino, sino el destino el que elige a la persona.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“La libertad y quienes andamos tras ella me recuerdan a las aves migratorias, porque siempre llegan a su destino por más que traten de… — Martín Balarezo García Copy Share Image
“A cada instante a existência se reorganiza numa distribuição sempre outra, rumo ao quê? Eu não sei.” — Filipe Russo Copy Share Image
“¿No se te ha ocurrido que, al contrario, otras personas no tienen tus dificultades porque no reaccionan a lo que les sucede como tú… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Lo que ellos no sabían es que, a veces, aunque las señales del destino digan que sí, hay cosas que no están destinadas a… — Daniel Ojeda Copy Share Image
“Durante tanto tempo adormecido, me acumulando no fundo do rio, neste leito de morte eu desperto do torpor.” — Filipe Russo Copy Share Image
“O vidente evidencia a vida em visões e meus olhos se cegaram para as verdades menores e apenas o supersônico das microfraturas me guia… — Filipe Russo Copy Share Image
“No hay que lamentarse por la muerte, como no hay que lamentarse por una flor que crece.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Si algo está destinado a ser, será. Y si no es así, no te estreses. Concéntrate en tu propia vida y en otras metas… — Ignacio Novo Copy Share Image
“Nunca lo he considerado así, pero ahora tengo la impresión de que era inevitable que me ocurriera. Me da la sensación de que, por… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“Si algo está destinado a ser, será. Si no, no te estréses y déjalo ir. Céntrate en tu vida y lo que hay en… — Ignacio Novo Copy Share Image
