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  • #1
    Hannah Arendt
    “No puedes pretender que quien te ama te trate a ti menos cruelmente de lo que se trata a sí mismo. La igualdad en el amor tiene siempre algo de horrible.”
    Hannah Arendt, Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #4
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

  • #5
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #6
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #8
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #9
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #10
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #11
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Siempre imaginé que el Paraíso sería algún tipo de biblioteca.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #12
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.”
    Jorge Luis Borges, Seven Nights

  • #13
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Cualquier destino, por largo y complicado que sea, consta en realidad de un solo momento: el momento en que el hombre sabe para siempre quién es”
    Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories

  • #14
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Yo querría que este momento durara siempre -murmuré.

    -Siempre es una palabra que no está permitida a los hombres -afirmó Ulrica (…)”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #15
    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
    in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
    Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

  • #16
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

  • #20
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #21
    Socrates
    “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
    Socrates

  • #22
    Henry Miller
    “A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
    Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

  • #23
    Yukio Mishima
    “True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”
    Yukio Mishima

  • #24
    John Steinbeck
    “Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
    John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

  • #25
    John Steinbeck
    “All great and precious things are lonely.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #26
    John Steinbeck
    “It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
    John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

  • #27
    And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
    “And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #28
    John Steinbeck
    “But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #29
    John Steinbeck
    “All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
    John Steinbeck

  • #30
    John Steinbeck
    “And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden



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