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“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
― Stephen King

“Is there a Henry in the world who could be insensible to such a declaration?”
― Anonymous

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
― Robert Frost

“...a veces nos preguntamos por qué la felicidad tarda tanto en llegar, por qué no vino antes, pero si nos aparece de repente, como en este caso, cuando ya no la esperábamos, entonces lo más probable es que no sepamos qué hacer con ella, y la cuestión no es tanto elegir entre reír o llorar, es la secreta angustia de pensar que tal vez no consigamos estar a su altura”
― José Saramago, El hombre duplicado

“Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.”
― José Saramago