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“La belleza engendra pudor”
― Thomas Mann, La Muerte en Venecia

“Pues el hombre ama y respeta al hombre mientras no se halla en condiciones de juzgarlo, y el deseo vehemente es el resultado de un conocimiento imperfecto”
― Thomas Mann, La Muerte en Venecia

“El hombre que no se doblega, fácilmente se puede quebrar”
― Carlo Goldoni, La locandiera

“Les droits imprescriptibles du lecteur :

1. Le droit de ne pas lire.
2. Le droit de sauter des pages.
3. Le droit de ne pas finir un livre.
4. Le droit de relire.
5. Le droit de lire n'importe quoi.
6. Le droit au bovarysme (maladie textuellement transmissible).
7. Le droit de lire n'importe où.
8. Le droit de grappiller.
9. Le droit de lire à haute voix.
10. Le droit de nous taire.”
― Daniel Pennac

“Se la morte, signor mio, fosse come uno di quegl’insetti strani, schifosi, che qualcuno inopinatamente ci scopre addosso... Lei passa per via; un altro passante, all’improvviso, lo ferma e, cauto, con due dita protese, le dice: «Scusi, permette? lei, egregio signore, ci ha la morte addosso». E con quelle due dita protese, gliela piglia e gliela butta via... Sarebbe magnifica! Ma la morte non è come uno di questi insetti schifosi. Tanti che passeggiano disinvolti e alieni, forse ce l’hanno addosso; nessuno la vede; ed essi pensano intanto tranquilli a ciò che faranno domani o doman l’altro.”
― Luigi Pirandello, L'uomo dal fiore in bocca

“Prendi la posizione più comoda: seduto, sdraiato, raggomitolato, coricato. Coricato sulla schiena, su un fianco, sulla pancia. In poltrona, sul divano, sulla sedia a dondolo, sulla sedia a sdraio, sul pouf. Sull'amaca, se hai un'amaca. Sul letto, naturalmente, o dentro il letto. Puoi anche metterti a testa in giù, in posizione yoga, col libro capovolto, si capisce.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

“The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers.”
― Dave Barry, Dave Barry Turns 50

“- E come la riconosco? Sono successi dieci anni, un sacco di tempo.
- "Guaglio", il tempo non è un sacco, magari è un bosco. Se hai conosciuto la foglia, poi riconosci l’albero. Se l’hai vista negli occhi, la ritroverai. Pure se è passato un bosco di tempo.”
― Erri De Luca, Il giorno prima della felicità

“Se délecter de la médiocrité d'autrui reste le comble de la médiocrité”
― Amélie Nothomb, Le Voyage d'hiver

“A veces, cuando algún profesor termina la explicación y pregunta si ha quedado alguna duda, Sylvia tiene ganas de levantar la mano y decir sí, ¿podría volver a empezar desde el principio?, pero desde el principio del principio, desde que nacemos, porque aún no he comprendido nada en estos casi dieciséis años de vida.”
― David Trueba, Saper perdere

“Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life's the other way round.”
― David Lodge

“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction--every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and excitement at about a million miles an hour.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“She carried her head high enough - even when we believed that she was fallen. It was as if she demanded more than ever the recognition of her dignity as the last Grierson; as if it had wanted that touch of earthiness to reaffirm her imperviousness”
― William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily and Other Stories

“Later, I would come to think of those first days as the time when we learned as a species that we had worried over the wrong things: the hole in the ozone layer, the melting of the ice caps, West Nile and swine flu and killer bees. But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles

“And I can't complain. After all, only women are able really to love”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

“Peu de gens savent que fumer des cigarettes tue. En même temps, je ne vois pas ce qu'on peut en faire d'autre...On ne va pas le manger ou se les glisser dans le rectum, tout de même”
― Manu Larcenet, Peu de gens savent

“Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Galápagos

“More and more people back then, and not just Andrew MacIntosh, had found ensuring the survival of the human race a total bore.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Galápagos

“But, Mummy, couldn't God make another wars, but bad people."
"Oh!" I said.
I was disappointed about that. I began to think that God wasn't quite what he was cracked up to be.”
― Frank O'Connor, My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories

“Now that I am dead, I know everything.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

“¿Quién puede resistirse a la tentación de ser considerado indispensable?”
― Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

“Siempre es una imprudencia interponerse entre un hombre y el reflejo de su propia inteligencia”
― Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

“Au bout de combien de temps oublie-t-on l'odeur de celui qui vous a aimée? Et quand cesse-t-on d'aimer à son tour? Qu'on me tende un sablier.”
― Anna Gavalda, Someone I Loved

“I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“Improvvisamente vide ciò che pensava invisibile. La fine del mondo.”
― Alessandro Baricco, Silk

“Aveva con sé l'inattaccabile quiete degli uomini che si sentono al loro posto. Ogni tanto, nelle
giornate di vento, scendeva attraverso il parco fino al lago, e si fermava per ore, sulla riva, a
guardare la superficie dell'acqua incresparsi formando figure imprevedibili che luccicavano a caso,
in tutte le direzioni. Era uno solo, il vento: ma su quello specchio d'acqua, sembravano mille, a
soffiare. Da ogni parte. Uno spettacolo. Lieve e inspiegabile.
Ogni tanto, nelle giornate di vento, Hervé Joncour scendeva fino al lago e passava ore a guardarlo,
giacché, disegnato sull'acqua, gli pareva di vedere l'inspiegabile spettacolo, lieve, che era stata la
sua vita.”
― Alessandro Baricco, Silk

“Alors j'ai pensé aux adverbes et aux conjonctions de coordination qui indiquent une rupture dans le temps (soudain, tout à coup), une opposition (néantmoins, en revanche, par contre, cependant) ou une concession (alors que , même si, quand bien même), je n'ai plus pensé qu'à ça, j'ai cherché à les énumérer dans ma tête, à en faire l'inventaire, je ne pouvais rien dire, rien du tout, parce que ça se brouillait autour de moi, les murs et la lumiere.
Alors, j'ai pensé que la grammaire a tout prévu, les désenchantements, les defaites et les emmerdements en général.”
― Delphine de Vigan, No and Me

“A drop of ink may make a million think.”
― George Gordon Byron

“No hauriem de menysprear la fortalesa dels pensaments solitaris”
― Albert Sánchez Piñol, Cold Skin