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“People don’t see things and hear things as objectively as they might think. The visual and auditory information that enters the mind is distorted by experiences, thoughts, circumstances, wild fancies, prejudices, preferences, knowledge, awareness, and countless other workings of the mind.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold

“A body might not always be beautiful, but a body can be a beautiful deception.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“But the only reason people thought I had everything is because I had all the things you can see. I had none of the things you can’t.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.”
― Charles Darwin

“That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“You must strive to find your own voice, boys, and the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“He paced in front of the class. "And don't limit poetry to the word. Poetry can be found in music, a photograph, in the way a meal is prepared—anything with the stuff of revelation in it. It can exist in the most everyday things but it must never, never be ordinary. By all means, write about the sky or a girl's smile, but when you do, let your poetry conjure up salvation day, doomsday, any day. I don't care, as long as it enlightens us, thrills us and—if it's inspired—makes us feel a bit immortal.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“That’s what you were trying to say, isn’t it? I mean, I think … mostly we’re too busy living to stop and notice we’re alive. But that sometimes we do. And that that makes the rest of it matter.”
― Neil Gaiman, Death: The Time of Your Life

“Si la vida carece de toda forma de unidad de sentido, acaba a destiempo.”
― Byung-Chul Han, El aroma del tiempo: Un ensayo filosófico sobre el arte de demorarse

“El tiempo transcurre a plena luz del día con tanto sigilo como el ladrón en la noche. Clavar la mirada en el tiempo, gritar hasta que el miedo lo petrifique: ¿redención o catástrofe?”
― Byung-Chul Han, El aroma del tiempo: Un ensayo filosófico sobre el arte de demorarse

“I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“El primero de la estirpe está amarrado a un árbol y al último se lo están comiendo las hormigas.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“La gente teme lo que no entiende y más si está relacionado con la muerte.”
― Fernando Trujillo Sanz, La Biblia de los Caídos. Tomo 0

“A sense of security, a feeling that a truce was established between the present hour and the irresistible, disastrous future, imparted to me a kind of calm forgetfulness, of which the human mind is by its structure peculiarly susceptible.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.”
― Dante Alighieri

“Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it?”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Pulvis et umbra sumus" (No somos más que polvo y sombra) (Horacio)”
― Horacio, Epodos y Odas de Horacio

“Only the man who could look into the future without worry could thoroughly enjoy the present.”
― Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday

“Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy. Now I have taken my worst wound in this parting, even if I were to go this night straight to the Dark Lord. Alas for Gimli son of Glóin!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings