Reflexive Quotes

“En la vida no hay ni buenos, ni malos. Sólo circunstancias.”
― Gema Bonnín, Arena roja

“Comrade Ogilvy, unimagined an hour ago, was now a fact. It struck him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones. Comrade Ogilvy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Vagamente pensava de muito longe e sem palavras o seguinte: já que sou, o jeito é ser.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“Si la observas de cerca, la vida es una tragedia, pero si la observas de lejos, es una comedia.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“We must say, "I have no past. I am beginning here and now”
― Kim Stanley Robinson

“Comrade Ogilvy, who had never existed in the
present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius
Caesar”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Comrade
Ogilvy, unimagined an hour ago, was now a fact. It struck
him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones. Comrade Ogilvy, who had never existed in the
present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authenticaly, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Tener una actitud positiva no va a mejorar tus problemas, pero va a cabrear a tanta gente que ya sólo por eso merece la pena.”
― Juan Gómez-Jurado, Todo vuelve

“La gente dice muchas cosas raras, pensó el muchacho. A veces es mejor estar con las ovejas, que son calladas y se limitan a buscar alimento y agua. O es mejor estar con los libros, que cuentan historias fantásticas siempre en los momentos en que uno quiere oírlas. Pero cuando uno habla con personas, estas dicen ciertas cosas que nos dejan sin saber como continuar la conversación”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist