Sofia Rodriguez > Sofia's Quotes

“Porque por encima de todas las razones sociales y psicológicas que pueda encontrar a lo que viví, hay una de la cual estoy totalmente segura: esas cosas me ocurrieron para que diera cuenta de ellas. Y quizás el verdadero objetivo de mi cuerpo, mis sensaciones y mis pensamientos se conviertan en escritura, es decir, en algo inteligible y general, y que mi experiencia pase a disolverse completamente en la cabeza y en la vida de otros.”
― Annie Ernaux, L'Événement

“The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility.”
― Susan Orlean , The Orchid Thief

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

“As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

“In my student bathroom, I had given birth to both life and death.”
― Annie Ernaux, Happening

“Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

“When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

“Traición no es lo contrario de amor; es una de sus opciones. Traidor –creo– es quien cambia a ojos de aquellos que no pueden cambiar y no cambiarán, aquellos que odian cambiar y no pueden concebir el cambio, a pesar de que siempre quieran cambiarle a uno. En otras palabras, traidor, a ojos del fanático, es cualquiera que cambia. Y es dura la elección entre convertirse en un fanático o convertirse en un traidor.”
― Amos Oz, Contra el fanatismo