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“The Council of American Builders met once a month and engaged in no tangible activity beyond listening to speeches and sipping an inferior brand of root beer. Its membership did not grow fast in quantity or quality. There were no concrete results achieved.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“The egotist in the absolute sense is not the man who sacrifices others. He is the man who stands above the need of using others in any manner. He does not function through them. He is not concerned with them in any primary matter. Not in his aim, not in his motive, not in his thinking, not in his desires, not in the source of his energy. He does not exist for any other man—and he asks no other man to exist for him.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“In Equality, There's No Authority.”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“Creo que parte de mi amor a la vida se lo debo a mi amor a los libros.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares

“People on the streets are dehumanized the same way settlers dehumanized the Indigenous, to steal the land of abundance at gunpoint, to tax the land to the fullest.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“¡Caer! ¡Estoy cayendo! Mientras me río, no sé por qué, me siento impura. Cuando lloro, no sé por qué, me siento yo y me purifico. ¡Cómo sufro! Mi alma es un trozo amorfo, blanquecino y lloroso...”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, Diarios

“The same people that outlawed the practice of Native American Medicine (without a colonizer centric degree), outlawed the traditional practice of healing those that are hurt/ill without expecting anything in return. Free healthcare. The basis of community.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“Mátame, Alice. Y, si no lo haces, al menos, ven y destrúyeme, déjame claro que no hay un mañana en el que pueda recorrer con los dedos los recovecos de tu cuerpo y mis sábanas se estiren bajo tu peso, el tuyo y el mío.”
― Marta Santés, Recuérdame, Alice

“Acostumbramos a ver el mundo desde una determinada perspectiva y en la mayoria de las veces esa perspectiva es el principal obstáculo para resolver un problema...”
― Guillermo Arriaga, Extrañas

“La amistad es una ocupación a tiempo completo si realmente ese alguien es tu amigo. Por eso, no se puede tener muchos amigos, no habría tiempo para todos.”
― Truman Capote