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Juan Manuel
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“Queremos que el fotógrafo sea un espía en la casa del amor y de la muerte y que los retratados no sean conscientes de la cámara, se encuentren con "la guardia baja".”
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Susan Sontag,
Regarding the Pain of Others
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“Ninguna definición compleja de lo que es o podrá ser la fotografía atenuará jamás el placer deparado por una foto de un hecho inesperado que capta a mitad de la acción un fotógrafo alerta.”
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Susan Sontag,
Regarding the Pain of Others
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“I said I would like it very much, which was a lie, but one must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.”
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Harper Lee,
To Kill a Mockingbird
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#4
“Finders were keepers unless title was proven.”
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Harper Lee,
To Kill a Mockingbird
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#5
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
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Harper Lee,
To Kill a Mockingbird
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#6
“Las cartas de importancia hay que retenerlas por lo menos un día hasta que se vean claramente todas las posibles consecuencias.”
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Ernesto Sábato,
El túnel
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#7
“A pesar de todo, el hombre tiene tanto apego a lo que existe, que prefiere finalmente soportar su imperfección y el dolor que causa su fealdad, antes que aniquilar la fantasmagoría con un acto de propia voluntad.”
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Ernesto Sábato,
El túnel
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#8
“—¿No le digo que no sé lo que pienso? Si pudiera decir con palabras claras lo que siento, sería casi como pensar claro.”
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Ernesto Sábato,
El túnel
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#9
“Es común que en las noches de insomnio sea teóricamente más decidido que durante el día, en los hechos.”
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Ernesto Sábato,
El túnel
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#10
“La frase "todo tiempo pasado fue mejor" no indica que antes sucedieran menos cosas malas, sino que —felizmente— la gente las echa al olvido.”
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Ernesto Sábato,
El túnel
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#11
“These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vastly hyperintelligent pandimensional beings.”
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Douglas Adams,
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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#12
“In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.”
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Douglas Adams,
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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#13
“Christianity without tears—that's what soma is.”
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Aldous Huxley,
Brave New World
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#14
“God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.”
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Aldous Huxley,
Brave New World
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#15
“We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.”
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Aldous Huxley,
Brave New World
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#16
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.”
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Aldous Huxley,
Brave New World
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#17
“One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.”
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Aldous Huxley,
Brave New World
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#18
“A man can smile and smile and be a villain.”
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Aldous Huxley,
Brave New World
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#19
“To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.”
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Aldous Huxley,
Brave New World
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#20
“Los viejos, entre viejos, son menos viejos.”
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Gabriel García Márquez,
Love in the Time of Cholera
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#21
“Recuerda siempre que lo más importante de un buen matrimonio no es la felicidad sino la estabilidad.”
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Gabriel García Márquez,
Love in the Time of Cholera
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#22
“my heart has more rooms in it than a whore house”
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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#23
“Infieles, pero no desleales.”
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Gabriel García Márquez,
Love in the Time of Cholera
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#24
“La ética -dijo- se imagina que los médicos somos de palo.”
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Gabriel García Márquez,
Love in the Time of Cholera
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“El problema con el matrimonio es que se acaba todas las noches después de hacer el amor, y hay que volver a reconstruirlo todas las mañanas antes del desayuno.”
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Gabriel García Márquez,
Love in the Time of Cholera
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#26
“La guerra está en el monte —dijo—. Desde que yo soy yo, en las ciudades no nos matan con tiros sino con decretos.”
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Gabriel García Márquez,
Love in the Time of Cholera
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“La gente que uno quiere debería morirse con todas sus cosas.”
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Gabriel García Márquez,
Love in the Time of Cholera
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#28
“The technological perils that science serves up, its implicit challenge to received wisdom, and its perceived difficulty, are all reasons for some people to mistrust and avoid it.”
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Carl Sagan,
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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#29
“Pseudoscience speaks to powerful emotional needs that science often leaves unfulfilled. It caters to fantasies about personal powers we lack and long for.”
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Carl Sagan,
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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“Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood.”
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Carl Sagan,
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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