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“Quizá sea el diablo quien dice estas cosas, y quizá tú las crees porque te las dice un rey.”
― Julio Cortázar

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

“Andábamos sin buscarnos, pero sabiendo que andábamos para encontrarnos”
― Julio Cortazar, Rayuela

“i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Foretelling

“Dile que los suspiros del mar
Humedecen las únicas palabras
Por las que vale la pena vivir”
― alejandra pizarnik

“I don’t know about birds
nor do I know the history of fire.
But I believe that my solitude should have wings”
― alejandra pizarnik

“Era una mujer irónica, con un inmenso sentido del humor y un gran poder de seducción, que tenía un compromiso radical, con la escritura. Habría quedecir, para empezar a comprenderla, que ella era un acto literario en sí mismo, que ella no estaba escindida de su literatura. Ella era su literatura. Y era una mujer fuerte, que seguramente hubiera pensado que el mito que se construyó en su derredor, más que colaborar con la comprensión de su poesía, parece querer domesticarla. Eligió decir determinadas cosas y no otras, construirse de determinada manera en los textos. Reinventar la lengua para poder decirse. Y en eso se le fue la vida. Y en eso no hay casualidad.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik

“Ninguna dificultad se compara a la de explicar pacientemente a un a persona mediocre la razón de nuestro desencasillamiento. De nuestro disconformismo. De nuestra INMORALIDAD.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik

“Acepta la locura. Crea el delirio. Establece la duda. Alimenta la paranoia.”
― John Katzenbach, The Analyst

“Write what should not be forgotten.”
― Isabel Allende

“Twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an even number that prevents them from truly touching. If you have the patience to go on counting, you discover that these pairs gradually become rarer. You encounter increasingly isolated primes, lost in that silent, measured space made only of ciphers, and you develop a distressing presentiment that the pairs encountered up until that point were accidental, that solitude is the true destiny. Then, just when you’re about to surrender, when you no longer have the desire to go on counting, you come across another pair of twins, clutching each other tightly.”
― Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers