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“¿Hay algo más seductor y a la vez más doloroso para el hombre que el libre albedrío?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Haber nacido me ha estropeado la salud.”
― Clarice Lispector

“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

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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

“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
― David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties -- all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name's Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion -- these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"

"I give."

"You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship—be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles—is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It's been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.”
― David Foster Wallace , This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

“If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.”
― David Foster Wallace, Up, Simbal!: 7 Days on the Trail of an Anticandidate

“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

“It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?”
― David Foster Wallace

“Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?”
― David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

“Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being.”
― David Foster Wallace

“It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Un día, encontrarás a alguien capaz de desatar una tormenta en tu interior, un incendio incontrolable y devastador. Cuando lo encuentres, ábrele la puerta.
Deja que lo arrase todo a su paso, que su intensidad te consuma y todo arda hasta que solo quedes tú, tu alma desnuda y sin filtros, ni barreras, ni condicionamientos, ni prejuicios, ni lindezas. Pura. Deja que el fuego lo devore todo, que la tormenta sea asoladora. Y descúbrete. Descubre qué hay bajo las ruinas, qué enterraste en tu interior.
Permite que el incendio descubra qué guardan las profundidades de tu océano”
― paula gallego, 3 noches en Oslo

“El amor es complejo, de todas las formas y colores. También es un poco canalla, le gusta el juego y el enredo y, si consigue engancharte, probablemente te gane la partida. Algunas personas se enamoran de verdad después de meses de noviazgo; en otras, el amor es instantáneo y fugaz. Hay quienes aman despacio, con lentitud, dilatando cada instante, y quienes prefieren arder antes que consumirse lentamente. Si preguntas, muchos dirán que no saben en qué preciso instante se enamoraron, tienen la sensación de que ocurrió poco a poco. Otros, describen un flechazo directo al corazón: un momento preciso, único, grabado a fuego en su piel”
― Paula Gallego, 13 horas en Viena

“El amor no te empuja a encerrar a quien amas en una jaula. El amor te permite ser capaz de verlo partir incluso si el miedo a perderlo te destroza, simplemente, porque confías en él y respetas su libertad. - Amaltea”
― Paula Gallego, La princesa de invierno

“No estoy enamorado de ti. Ni siquiera despiertas en mí una de esas nostalgias aberrantes que los hombres de mi edad sienten con la proximidad de una vida joven: eres un ser inferior, Iris Mateluna, un trozo de existencia primaria que rodea a un útero reproductor tan central a tu persona que todo el resto de tu ser es cáscara superflua.”
― José Donoso, The Obscene Bird of Night

“Yo no entiendo, Madre Benita, cómo usted puede seguir creyendo en un Dios mezquino que fabricó tan pocas máscaras, somos tantos los que nos quedamos recogiendo de aquí y de allá cualquier desperdicio con que disfrazarnos para tener la sensación de que somos alguien (...)”
― José Donoso, The Obscene Bird of Night

“El Paraíso está aquí; siempre y cuando uno sepa cómo armar los fragmentos.”
― José Donoso, Donde van a morir los elefantes

“¿Pero qué no ves que toda vida, toda creación en el campo que sea, todo acto de amor, no es más que una rebeldía frente a la extinción, no importa que sea falsa o verdadera, que dé resultados o no?”
― José Donoso, Coronación

“No sabía cuál era la realidad, la de adentro o la de afuera, si había inventado lo que pensaba o lo que pensaba había inventado lo que sus ojos veían. Era un mundo sellado, ahogante, como vivir adentro de un saco tratando de morder el yute para buscar una salida o darle una entrada al aire y ver si era afuera o adentro o en otra parte donde estaba su destino, beber un poco de aire fresco no confinado por sus obsesiones, dónde comenzaba a ser él y dejaba de ser los demás... por eso el dolor, el mordisco necesario para salir, o para dejar entrar el aire.”
― José Donoso, The Obscene Bird of Night