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“I became another man. I tried to reread the classics that had guided me in adolescence, and I could not bear them. I buried myself in the romantic writings I had repudiated when my mother tried to ...”
“That would be fine,” she said “If we’re alone, we’ll leave the lamp lighted so that we can see each other, and I can holler as much as I want without anybody’s having to butt in, and you can whispe...”
“The wind from the Caribbean blew in the windows along with the racket made by the birds, and Fermina Daza felt in her blood the wild beating of her free will.”
“There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The ...”
“You can't come in, colonel," she told him. "You may be in command of your war, but I'm in command of my house.”
“Maybe I'll have a tumour like his someday. At first it will be a small but growing sphere that will branch out, growing larger in my stomach like a fetus. I will probably feel it when it starts to ...”
“Conception my boy fundamental brainwork is what makes the difference in all art.”
“The more the heart is sated with joy the more it becomes insatiable.”
“The most important thing in marriage is not happiness but stability.”
“While a person does not give up on sex sex does not give up on the person.”
“The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.”
“The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance the farther there is to go and the more there is to say the less time there is to say it.”
“i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just ...”
“Life in a world centred on function is liable to dispair because in reality the world is empty, it rings hollow; and if it resist this temptation it is only to the extent that there comes into plat...”
“Being is - or should be - necessary.”
“When the pessimist Besme says in La Ville that nothing is, he means precisely this, that there is no experience that withstands the analytical test.”
“Is there such a thing as being? What is it? etc. Yet immediately an abyss opens under my feet: I who ask these questions about being, how can I be sure that I exist? Yet surely I, who formulate thi...”
“I am therefore led to assume or to recognise a form of participation which has the reality of a subject; this participation cannot be, by definition, an object of thought; it cannot serve as a solu...”
“No doubt I shall be told: In the immense majority of cases this is an illusion. But it is of the essence of hope to exlclude the consideration of cases; moreover, it can be shown that there exists ...”
“The great pessimists in the history of thought [...] have prepared our minds to understand that despair can be what it was for Nietzsche (though on an infra-ontological level and in a domain fraugh...”
