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“Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“(...) it was in this extreme poverty that I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I’ll recover from it, I’ll pick up my pencil that I put down in my great discouragement and I’ll get back to drawing, and from then on, it seems to me, everything has changed for me, and now I’m on my way and my pencil has become somewhat obedient and seems to become more so day by day. It was poverty, too long and too severe, that had discouraged me to the point where I could no longer do anything.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics

“I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“Suicidarse es perder la noción de la fatalidad y del destino. No tener más miedo de lo que todavía puede venir a hacerme doler y sufrir. Suicidarse es reconocer que lo peor está ocurriendo ahora. El suicidio es el rechazo rotundo del presente. Por eso pocos neuróticos ansiosos se suicidan, están siempre a la espera de un mal mayor. Suicidarse implica la máxima atención y lucidez, decirse «esta soy yo, ahora, aquí». Y saber, también, que no se debe esperar más. Suicidarse es cerrar una puerta, la de la sala de espera.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, Diarios

“Tengo la horrible sensación de que pasa el tiempo y no hago nada y nada acontece, y nada me conmueve hasta la raíz”
― Mario Benedetti, La tregua

“It was not Death, for I stood up,
And all the Dead, lie down—
It was not Night, for all the Bells
Put out their Tongues, for Noon.”
― Emily Dickinson