Como si el mundo se encogiera en torno a un núcleo de entidades desglosables. Las cosas cayendo en el olvido y con ellas sus nombres. Los colores. Los nombres de los pájaros. Alimentos. Por último los nombres de las cosas que uno creía verdaderas. Más frágiles de lo que él habría pensado. Cuánto de ese mundo había desaparecido ya? El sagrado idioma desprovisto de sus refrentes y por tanto de su realidad. Rebajado como algo que intenta preservar su calor. A tiempo para desaparecer para siempre en un abrir y cerrar de ojos.
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No era simplemente uno de los mensajes de Pabl... C.J. MAHANEY Entro Kriztina y aquel salon oscuro se inundo de luz. No solamente irradiaba juventud, no. Irradiaba... SáNDOR MáRAI - Estoy enamorado de tí, y no estoy en el negocio de negarme el simple placer de decir cosas verdad... JOHN GREEN
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CORMAC MCCARTHY In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. CORMAC MCCARTHY She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their dar... CORMAC MCCARTHY They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and th... CORMAC MCCARTHY Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love. CORMAC MCCARTHY The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow. CORMAC MCCARTHY The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not. CORMAC MCCARTHY When I was in school I studied biology. I learned that in making their experiments scientists will t... CORMAC MCCARTHY He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He... CORMAC MCCARTHY He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart be... 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CORMAC MCCARTHY Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of you... CORMAC MCCARTHY They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a shi... CORMAC MCCARTHY They had no curiousity about him at all. As if they knew all that they needed to know. They stood an... CORMAC MCCARTHY All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in p... CORMAC MCCARTHY If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scienti... CORMAC MCCARTHY Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie. CORMAC MCCARTHY If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall... CORMAC MCCARTHY If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or b... CORMAC MCCARTHY Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doin... CORMAC MCCARTHY All The Pretty Horses CORMAC MCCARTHY He may be dead; or he may be teaching English. CORMAC MCCARTHY We were considered rich because all the people around us were living in one- or two-room shacks. CORMAC MCCARTHY I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failur... CORMAC MCCARTHY I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen. CORMAC MCCARTHY A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves. No matter even if it kills him? I thin... CORMAC MCCARTHY Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself? CORMAC MCCARTHY It howled execration upon the dim camarine world of its nativity wail on wail while he lay there gib... CORMAC MCCARTHY Pensó que cada recuerdo evocado debe violentar en alguna medida sus orígenes. Como en un juego. El... CORMAC MCCARTHY Algunas cosas las olvidas, no? Olvidas lo que quieres recordar y recuerdas lo que quieres olvidar. CORMAC MCCARTHY The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indes... CORMAC MCCARTHY You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were. CORMAC MCCARTHY It was an old hunter in camp and the hunter shared tobacco with him and told him of the buffalo and ... CORMAC MCCARTHY Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing ou... CORMAC MCCARTHY But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse CORMAC MCCARTHY In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. CORMAC MCCARTHY He rose and stood tottering in that cold dark with his arms held out for balance while the vestibula... CORMAC MCCARTHY They rode out along the fenceline and across the open pastureland. The leather creaked in the mornin... CORMAC MCCARTHY You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?' 'Yeah. But you remember some ... CORMAC MCCARTHY When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them. CORMAC MCCARTHY The cap was gone and the man dropped to his elbows to smell the pipe but the odor of gas was only a ... CORMAC MCCARTHY A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover hi... CORMAC MCCARTHY He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen an... CORMAC MCCARTHY The arrangement seems to be that UBS will buy Time Warner shares it seems for the voting rights but ... CORMAC BUTLER Icahn wants sufficient control to achieve his strategy of breaking up Time Warner. CORMAC BUTLER In a typical situation the investor accepts a low or zero interest rate in return for exposure to a ... CORMAC BUTLER Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. JOHN MCCARTHY Compassion is contempt with a human face. JOHN MCCARTHY Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull. KEVIN MCCARTHY Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics. MELISSA MCCARTHY To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's wh... MELISSA MCCARTHY As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work. KEVIN MCCARTHY I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. Yo... KEVIN MCCARTHY Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig. JOHN MCCARTHY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ... MARY MCCARTHY The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and t... EUGENE MCCARTHY One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that ... EUGENE MCCARTHY In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e... MARY MCCARTHY To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, pol... MARY MCCARTHY ...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the ag... MARY MCCARTHY Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? CHARLIE MCCARTHY We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story. MARY MCCARTHY I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith their denomination and ... ALICE MCCARTHY The idea of it is to examine religious issues. They (panelist) are radical in the sense that they go... ALICE MCCARTHY They call us to action to love each other. Just in the correspondence I've been having with them, I ... ALICE MCCARTHY I think that if there is a large number of people here that it will get the churches talking. I thin... ALICE MCCARTHY I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith â€Ã... ALICE MCCARTHY Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith ... ERIN MCCARTHY Why?” she whispered. “Why should I dance with you?” “Because I love you. Because ... ERIN MCCARTHY The happy ending is our national belief. MARY MCCARTHY Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy. JOE MCCARTHY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ... MARY MCCARTHY Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. CHARLIE MCCARTHY Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. MARY MCCARTHY A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traito... MARY MCCARTHY