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“A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well, it criticizes itself incessantly; so far from banishing thought, it is itself reared only upon a structure of thought.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“La gente grande no se acuerda ya de lo mucho que cuesta estudiar.
Creen que uno no tiene nada en la cabeza...
Y hay que ver lo difícil que es poner atención y no pensar en otra cosa.
Porque hay tanto en qué pensar.”
― Marcela Paz, Papelucho: Historiador

“Contradiction is what keeps sanity in place.”
― Gustave Flaubert