“Me preguntó si me había llevado ya a la cama a la traductora (no sabía nada concreto sobre Julia, solamente que había alguien, una mujer, conmigo; pero creía que se trataba del deber obvio de cualquier buen italiano en viaje de trabajo)…”
― Mar Bianco
― Mar Bianco
“Ask yourself, if all men must grub in the dirt for food, how shall any man lift his eyes to contemplate the stars? If each of us must break his back to build a hovel, who shall raise the temples to glorify the gods? For some men to be great, others must be enslaved.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
“The hand’s dexterity is the physical manifestation of the mind’s ingenuity,”
― Stories of Your Life and Others
― Stories of Your Life and Others
“A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals, and a people revert to a mob.”
― Dune
― Dune
“The most wonderful people in the world are nothing but raging animals when trapped in the throes of jealousy.”
― The Garden of Rama
― The Garden of Rama
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