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“Morir es no estar nunca más con los amigos.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“La guerra atómica es la negación de las virtudes del militar: nada tiene de valeroso apretar un botón letal.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

“For reasons nobody understands, the universe is deeply mathematical. Maybe God made it that way. Or maybe it’s the only way a universe with us in it could be, because nonmathematical universes can’t harbor life intelligent enough to ask the question. In any case, it’s a mysterious and marvelous fact that our universe obeys laws of nature that always turn out to be expressible in the language of calculus as sentences called differential equations.”
― Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
― Mark Twain

“(...) Así, en la realidad, de la alegría nace la pena, bien porque el recuerdo de la felicidad pasada forme la angustia de hoy, bien porque las angustias que son tengan su origen en los éxtasis que pueden haber sido.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“I'm just a man, not a hero. just a boy, who wants to sing this song.”
― Gerard Way

“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“From a hundred rabbits you can’t make a horse, a hundred suspicions don’t make a proof,”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“For my dearest darling, treasured, cherished Agatha whom I worship. With respect, adoration, admiration, kisses, gratitude, best wishes, and love from Z to A.”
― Wes Anderson

“I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.”
― Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox

“Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. (We must know. We will know.)

[Inscribed on his tomb in Gottingen.]”
― David Hilbert

“You cannot pass," he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring