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“Si los perros razonasen, sin duda alguna, descubrirían mayores ridiculeces en las relaciones sociales de sus amos, o algo peor.”
― Fedor M. Dostojewski

“How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze”
― Murasaki Shikibu

“It is indeed in many ways more comfortable to belong to that section of society whose action are not publicly canvassed and discussed”
― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji

“Life is full of uncertainties, perhaps one day some unforeseen circumstance would bring her into his life once more”
― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji

“One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome”
― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji

“The world know it not; but you, Autumn, I confess it: your wind at night-fall stabs deep into my heart”
― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji

“No penance can your hard heart find save such as you long since have taught me to endure”
― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji

“Would that, like the smoke of the watch-fires that mounts and vanishes at random in the empty sky, the smouldering flame of passion could burn itself away”
― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji

“If like the leaf of the wisteria through which the sun darts his rays transparently you give your heart to me, I will no longer distrust you”
― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji

“Creo que los postres son como sueños que hacen felices a las personas”
― Banana Yoshimoto

“La sensación de no ver el final del túnel todavía no se había disipado. En esos días, yo tenía que contentarme con el presente, porque temía que, si apartaba la mirada de él, la pena me embargaría y, sin embargo, precisamente eso contribuía a ese extraño estado de felicidad”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Recuerdos de un callejón sin salida

“En este mundo cada uno tiene su particular abismo. Mis desgracias o las tuyas son nimias, en el mundo hay cosas mucho peores, cosas que, si nos ocurrieran a nosotros, nos destrozarían y nos matarían al instante. Porque nosotros gozamos de una situación bastante feliz y aventajada. Y no hay que avergonzarse de ello”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Recuerdos de un callejón sin salida

“La felicidad llega sin llamar a la puerta, al margen de las situaciones y circunstancias que la rodean a una, con una independencia casi cruel. No importa en qué situación te halles o con quién estés.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Recuerdos de un callejón sin salida

“Son muchos los que ni siquiera hacen el esfuerzo de imaginar el tesoro que duerme en el corazón de los demás.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Recuerdos de un callejón sin salida

“Malevolence is born of negative feelings like loneliness and sadness and anger. It comes from an emptiness inside you that feels as if it's been carved out with a knife, an emptiness you're left with when something very important has been taken away from you”
― Ryu Murakami

“Sucede que el corazón acaba velando en la distancia la belleza de las cosas ya vistas, desde las más intensamente vividas a las más pálidas; todo quedaba completamente envuelto en el corazón y ahora se sumergía en el paisaje que avanzaba hacia nosotros moviéndose velozmente”
― Banana Yoshimoto, N.P

“Elinor now found the difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event, however certain the mind may be told to consider it, and certainty itself. She now found that, in spite of herself, she had always admitted a hope, while Edward remained single, that something would occur to prevent his marrying Lucy; that some resolution of his own, some mediation of friends, or some more eligible opportunity of establishment for the lady, would arise to assist the happiness of all. But he was now married; and she condemned her heart for the lurking flattery which so much heightened the pain of the intelligence.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Modificar el pasado no es modificar un solo hecho; es anular sus consecuencias, que tienden a ser infinitas”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories

“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

“Alejandría, debelada, imploró en vano la misericordia del César”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories

“She did not really like her. She would not be in a hurry to find fault, but she suspected that there was no elegance, ease, but not elegance... Her person was rather good; her face not unpretty; but neither feature nor air, nor voice, nor manner were elegant.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart,' said she afterwards to herself.  'There is nothing to be compared to it.  Warmth and tenderness of heart, with an affectionate, open manner, will beat all the clearness of head in the world, for attraction: I am sure it will.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Evil to some is always good to others”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“But a note had had been prepared and left for her, written in the very style to touch --a small mixture of reproach with a great deal of kindness”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Es una estupidez perder el presente sólo por el miedo de no llegar a ganar el futuro”
― José Saramago

“Además no todo tiene que suceder mañana, hay cosas que sólo pasado mañana”
― José Saramago

“Aunque lo parezca, no fingimos ante los otros, fingimos ante nosotros mismos”
― José Saramago

“El error también puede ser la consecuencia de haber pensado bien, aparte de eso, no está escrito en ninguna parte que precipitarse tenga que acarrear forzosamente malos resultados.”
― José Saramago