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“As we all know, time sometimes flies like a bird, and sometimes
crawls like a worm, but people may be unusually happy when they do not
even notice whether time has passed quickly or slowly”
― Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“A nihilist is a man who doesn’t acknowledge any authorities, who doesn’t accept a single principle on faith, no matter how much that principle may be surrounded by respect.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“I think; here I lie under a haystack.... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitely small in comparison with the rest of space, in which I am not, and which has nothing to do with me; and the period of time in which it is my lot to live is so petty beside the eternity in which I have not been, and shall not be.... And in this atom, this mathematical point, the blood is circulating, the brain is working and wanting something.... Isn't it loathsome? Isn't it petty?”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Children

“Mi cabeza es un laberinto oscuro. A veces hay como relámpagos que iluminan algunos corredores. Nunca termino de saber por qué hago ciertas cosas.”
― Ernesto Sabato, El túnel

“Consult the genius of the place in all;
That tells the waters or to rise, or fall;
Or helps th' ambitious hill the heav'ns to scale,
Or scoops in circling theatres the vale;
Calls in the country, catches opening glades,
Joins willing woods, and varies shades from shades,
Now breaks, or now directs, th' intending lines;
Paints as you plant, and, as you work, designs.”
― Alexander Pope

“I am in trouble here. This woman is not right.”
― Stephen King, Misery

“When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving.”
― Stephen King, Misery

“She was crazy but he needed her. Oh I am in so much trouble he thought, and stared blindly up at the ceiling as the droplets of sweat began to gather on his forehead again.”
― Stephen King, Misery

“He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely.”
― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“In all governments accordingly, even in monarchies, the highest offices are generally possessed, and the whole detail of the administration conducted, by men who were educated in the middle and inferior ranks of life, who have been carried forward by their own industry and abilities, though loaded with the jealousy, and opposed by the resentment, of all those who were born their superiors, and to whom the great, after having regarded them first with contempt, and afterwards with envy, are at last contented to truckle with the same abject meanness with which they desire that the rest of mankind should behave to themselves.”
― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your sight by my sight, of your ear by my ear, of your reason by my reason, of your resentment by my resentment, of your love by my love. I neither have, nor can have, any other way of judging about them.”
― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“Una vez me dijo que por mí iría hasta el infierno; nunca entendió, yo quería seguirlo a él al cielo.”
― Jorge Franco, Rosario Tijeras

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“Each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden.. forbidden for him. It's possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“There are numerous ways in which God can make us lonely and lead us back to ourselves. This is the way He dealt with me at the time. It was like a bad dream.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“¿Entristecer con mi presencia su felicidad, ser un reproche, marchitar las flores que se puso en los cabellos para ir al altar? ¡Jamás, jamás! ¡Que su cielo sea sereno, que su sonrisa sea clara! Yo te bendigo por el instante de alegría que diste al transeúnte melancólico, extraño, solitario… ¡Dios mío! ¿Un instante de felicidad no es suficiente para toda una vida?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Had she stabbed me with a knife, she could not have hurt me more.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias

“Nosotras, criaturas de azar, no tenemos deseos fantásticos ni amores inconcebibles. Nos entregamos igual por una cosa que por otra. Hay individuos que se arruinarían sin obtener de nosotras nada, y hay otros que nos logran por un ramillete. Nuestro corazón tiene caprichos; esa es su única distracción y su única excusa. Yo me he entregado a ti más deprisa que a ningún hombre. ¿Por qué? Porque, al verme escupir sangre, me cogiste la mano; porque lloraste; porque eres la sola persona humana que ha tenido a bien compadecerme.”
― Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dama de Las Camelias

“Las lágrimas son tan excepcionales que no pueden regalarse a la primera que pasa”
― Alejandro Dumas (Hijo), La dame aux camélias