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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Preferimos ignorar que el progreso y la belleza incluyen dolor y violencia. En consonancia con esa extraña contradicción humana, muchos de esos libros han servido para difundir por el mundo torrentes de palabras sabias sobre el amor, la bondad y la compasión.”
― Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco

“It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

“It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible....”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Men shout to avoid listening to one another.”
― Miguel de Unamuno

“Asylums are museums of the soul.”
― Stanislaw Lem

“Here is a final lesson: do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said: Vengeance is mine.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“Solo los tontos creen que el silencio es vacío. A veces para comunicar es mejor callar.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.”
― Stanislaw Lem

“If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?"

I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?"

To shrug.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities