El problema es que se recuerda esta lista con una intensidad tal que su mismo ardor confunde los hechos. La lista era un bien absoluto. La lista era la vida. Más allá de sus márgenes se abría el abismo.
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"te quiero, pero..."; "podría ser, pero..."; "no e... EDUARDO SACHERI Que la vida del hombre es solamente un sueño ya se le había ocurrido a bastantes, y también a mi ... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Dentro de aquella casa con las persianas cerradas, sentí un odio profundo hacia la primavera. Odié... HARUKI MURAKAMI –Watanabe, ¿puedes explicarme la diferencia entre el condicional simple y el condicional perfecto... HARUKI MURAKAMI Yo he visto estos solitarios apretujados en increíbles racimos en los andenes y en los coches del t... ARTURO USLAR PIETRI Así se reanudó una amistad prohibida que por lo menos una vez se pareció al amor. Hablaban hasta ... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Para mí, el azul mediterráneo ya no es bonito. La transparencia de sus aguas, tan valorada por los... JONATHAN FRANZEN El desarrollo de software comparte con el deporte profesional la característica de lograr que los t... NEAL STEPHENSON Polly había llorado tanto que se sentía deshidratada. El llanto juvenil es una cosa y el llanto ad... LAURIE COLWIN A veces, lees un libro y te llena con este fervor evangélico raro, y te convences de que el mundo d... JOHN GREEN ¿Quieres entender que es un año de vida? Pregúntaselo a un estudiante que acaba de suspender el e... MARC LEVY La verdad, es que en el fondo soy un fatalista. Si a uno le llega la hora, da lo mismo un Boeing que... MARIO BENEDETTI Puede perder cosas materiales pero nunca podrá perder su maestría, lo que se ha aprendido, la pers... JACK CANFIELD porque el camino recto del amor, ya se guíe por sí mismo, ya sea guiado por otro, es comenzar por ... PLATO Siempre he envidiado a las personas que se duermen con facilidad. Sus cerebros deben de estar más l... DAVID BENIOFF Lo que mucha gente llama amar consiste en elegir una mujer y casarse con ella. La eligen, te lo juro... JULIO CORTáZAR Y si eres tan lista como pareces, deberías saber que es una estupidez creer que la ciencia lo resue... 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PABLO NERUDA (...) y todo aquello unido era el río, todas las voces, los fines, los anhelos, los sufrimientos, l... HERMANN HESSE ¡Lo fuerte es que se trataba de lugares preciosos! De una hermosura...Y esa misma belleza era la qu... SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH Pero el sufrimiento pasa. Si la vida, que es todo, pasa, por qué no han de pasar el amor y el dolor... FERNANDO SAVATER Si os he referido estos detalles acerca del asteroide B 612 y si os he confiado su número es por la... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Muchos de los que viven merecen morir y algunos de los que mueren merecen la vida. ¿Puedes devolver... GANDALS Muchos de los que viven merecen morir y algunos de los que mueren merecen la vida. ¿Puedes devolver... J.R.R. TOLKIEN La vida es como una vela prendida. Todos cuando nacemos llevamos una con nuestro nombre reflejado en... AUDREY DRY Sólo quiero que se haga justicia. Nada más. En toda mi vida he pensado que lo que quería era veng... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN En la amistad como en el amor se es más feliz por las cosas que se ignoran que por las que se saben... FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hay una realidad que demuestra la verdad de un hecho. Porque nuestra memoria y nuestros sentidos son... HARUKI MURAKAMI ¿Llegará el día en que sea capaz de sacármela de la cabeza? Incluso ahora que la situación en l... ADRIANA GONZáLEZ MáRQUEZ El filósofo no pretende aparecer si no tal cual es, busca la verdad con el solo fin de conocer sin ... ARISTOTLE Me entró entonces la duda de si habría poseído alguna vez un don que no fuese el de la fabulació... MARIE NDIAYE Si miramos el fuego es porque parpadea, porque resplandece. Lo que atrae nuestra mirada es la luz, p... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Existe el pasado, y también el futuro. El presente no es más que el único segundo que divide la u... LAINI TAYLOR Entro Kriztina y aquel salon oscuro se inundo de luz. No solamente irradiaba juventud, no. Irradiaba... 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THOMAS JEFFERSON The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor... THOMAS JEFFERSON To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an... THOMAS JEFFERSON Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to... THOMAS JEFFERSON Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do. THOMAS JEFFERSON The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. THOMAS JEFFERSON I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. THOMAS JEFFERSON Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations. THOMAS GRAY Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. THOMAS JEFFERSON Always take hold of things by the smooth handle. THOMAS JEFFERSON Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man. THOMAS JEFFERSON It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wr... THOMAS JEFFERSON No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. THOMAS JEFFERSON No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms. THOMAS JEFFERSON No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it. THOMAS JEFFERSON He who knows best knows how little he knows. THOMAS JEFFERSON Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have,... THOMAS JEFFERSON To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by educat... THOMAS JEFFERSON Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. THOMAS JEFFERSON The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values. NORMAN THOMAS Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. THOMAS MANN One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. THOMAS CARLYLE The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated... THOMAS SOWELL It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. THOMAS MANN Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the ear... LEWIS THOMAS It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. THOMAS JEFFERSON Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face. THOMAS SOWELL It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those ... THOMAS SOWELL The things that we love tell us what we are. THOMAS AQUINAS The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore ... THOMAS SOWELL Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it. THOMAS HARRIS Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to c... THOMAS AQUINAS Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. THOMAS SZASZ The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never ... THOMAS HARDY Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by... THOMAS SOWELL By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The s... THOMAS MERTON I was called before the king's tribunal like a layman and was deserted in the quarter where I ha... THOMAS BECKET But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kind... CLARENCE THOMAS The more I loved the king, the more I opposed his injustice until his brow fell lowering upon me. He... THOMAS BECKET My first choice was to work it out with Larry Brown. I needed Larry and I gave him 50 million bucks.... ISAIAH THOMAS The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed ... THOMAS BERNHARD Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we ... THOMAS FRANK It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supp... CLARENCE THOMAS The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest. THOMAS FULLER I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal i... DEBI THOMAS Meditate on the unique relationship between Christians. Psalm 133:1 proclaims the goodness and pleas... THOMAS BROOKS #4. Spend more time considering areas of agreement than disagreement. The doctrines you share with o... THOMAS BROOKS Netscape brought the Internet alive with the browser. They made the Internet so that Grandma could u... THOMAS FRIEDMAN When I hit 16, I got a scooter to ride to school. It was bright pink, and I saw on the ownership pap... THOMAS SANGSTER Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you. THOMAS MANN The Iraqi sun quickly heated the air to an unbearable one hundred twenty three degree’s, caus... THOMAS FERREOLUS I go to each job and open my little briefcase up, and I take out the things that I have or I know. I... THOMAS KAIL My dad is one of my favorite human beings in the world. He's just a good person, and he could en... THOMAS RHETT Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escapi... THOMAS WOLFE To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious. THOMAS TRAHERNE We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so a... THOMAS SZASZ The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noi... THOMAS JEFFERSON The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working unde... THOMAS JEFFERSON