Hikari's quotes

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"The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight."
— Gabriel García Márquez

tags: books
68 people liked it

"God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us."
— Jorge Luis Borges

4 people liked it

"Nunca se lo había explicado antes, no crea que por deslealtad, pero naturalmente uno no va a ponerse a explicarle a la gente que de cuando en cuando vomita un conejito. Como siempre me ha sucedido estando a solas, guardaba el hecho igual que se guardan tantas constancias de lo que acaece (o hace uno acaecer) en la privacía total. No me lo reproche, Andrée, no me lo reproche. De cuando en cuando me ocurre vomitar un conejito. No es razón para no vivir en cualquier casa, no es razón para que uno tenga que avergonzarse y estar aislado y andar callándose."
— Julio Cortázar (Bestiario)

5 people liked it

"Para leer en forma interrogativa

Has visto
verdaderamente has visto
la nieve los astros los pasos afelpados de la brisa
Has tocado
de verdad has tocado
el plato el pan la cara de esa mujer que tanto amas
Has vivido
como un golpe en la frente
el instante el jadeo la caída la fuga
Has sabido
con cada poro de la piel sabido
que tus ojos tus manos tu sexo tu blando corazón
había que tirarlos
había que llorarlos
había que inventarlos otra vez.

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— Julio Cortázar

7 people liked it

"In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of the three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes."
— Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)

tags: fairy-tale, once-upon-a-time
34 people liked it

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
— Jane Austen

370 people liked it

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing
1,943 people liked it

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. "
— Umberto Eco

39 people liked it

"There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope."
— Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)

tags: hope, inspirational, wisdom
816 people liked it

"Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest."
— Alexandre Dumas

31 people liked it

"She's strong! And scary...I bet she's single...I'd put money on it...
-Kabuto"
— Masashi Kishimoto (Naruto, Vol. 18: Tsunade's Choice)

tags: funny, manga, naruto, women
171 people liked it

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

tags: deadlines, humor, work
5,444 people liked it

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
— Terry Pratchett (Diggers)

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
3,041 people liked it

"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, inspirational
2,617 people liked it

"Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"
— Albert Einstein

tags: creativity, humor
2,024 people liked it

"The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don't want to do."
— Phillip C. McGraw

11 people liked it

"In our lives, we have two or three opportunities to be a hero, but almost everyday, we have the opportunity not to be a coward."
— Spanish Provberb

tags: courage, motivational, proverb, spanish
3 people liked it

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
— Thomas A. Edison

tags: edison, failure, inspirational
3,821 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
18,654 people liked it

"I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones)

1,175 people liked it

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain "
— Mark Twain

5 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,783 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
16,402 people liked it

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
11,504 people liked it

"El mundo está en manos de quien se atreve a soñar y vivir sus propios sueños."
— Blanca Irene Chú Ruiz

tags: inspirational
1 person liked it

"Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist."
— Michael Levine

tags: wisdom
249 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
11,388 people liked it

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
8,258 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
7,648 people liked it

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
7,061 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
6,228 people liked it

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
5,157 people liked it

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
3,882 people liked it

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: books, reading
2,146 people liked it

"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
— Douglas Adams

tags: humor, perspective, science
1,044 people liked it

"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind."
— Henry James

tags: kindness
661 people liked it

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
— Mark Twain

tags: illusions, life
620 people liked it

"It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise."
— Nancy Thayer

188 people liked it

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

tags: inspirational
46 people liked it

"He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Circus of the Damned (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #3))

tags: knowledge, learning, twenty
28 people liked it

""I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers." "
— Piers Anthony

tags: anthony, piers, publishers, story-telling
11 people liked it

"For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: happiness
8 people liked it

"The world is'nt such a bad place at all - as long as one did'nt read the daily newspaper"
— Bill Aitken

tags: newspaper, world
3 people liked it

"Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
— Aristotle

tags: happiness
3 people liked it

"Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have - so spend it wisely. "
— Kay Lyons

tags: present
2 people liked it

"Treat people as they are, and they remain that way. Treat them as though they were what they can be, and we help them become what they are capable of becoming."
— Goethe

tags: inspirational
2 people liked it

"One man with courage makes a majority"
— Andrew Jackson

tags: life
2 people liked it

"If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."
— Henry Ford

tags: security
2 people liked it

"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: books, old-books, reading
341 people liked it