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La creatividad significa saber quiénes somos. Es jazz sin música, es un flujo de energía. Ser creativos es ser valientes


Umberto Eco

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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY El "pero" es la palabra más puta que conozco -. "te quiero, pero..."; "podría ser, pero..."; "no e...
EDUARDO SACHERI No estoy enamorado de ti. Ni siquiera despiertas en mí una de esas nostalgias aberrantes que los ho...
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JOHN GREEN Una cosa es ser antisocial y otra ser socialmente selectivo. No a todos se les debe invitar a que en...
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AMéLIE NOTHOMB Escribir es un modo de localizar mi hambre, y el hambre no es sino un vacío.
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J.K. ROWLING Ningún ser humano es indigno cuando se comprenden sus motivos. Ninguna vida deja de merecer la pena...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Escribir es como besar, pero sin labios. Escribir es besar con la mente.
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J.K. ROWLING Lo que sabemos es una gota de agua; lo que ignoramos es un océano.
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BYUNG-CHUL HAN Óscar
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BRIAN SELZNICK Si dejas de tener un propósito en la vida es como... como si te rompieras.
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ANGEL MARIA DE LERA La soledad es necesaria para alcanzar la santidad. Se han olvidado de que en la soledad la tentació...
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BENITO TAIBO Qué es la vida? Un frenesí.
¿Qué es la vida? Una ilusión,
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CRISTO LEON Nada es tuyo. Con nada te vas. Desnudo llegaste. Tu Ser solo se irá.
BYRON ROMERO PEñA es preciso ser puta, niña mía, puta en el alma y en el corazón.
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ISAAC ASIMOV La primera regla del Club de la lucha es: nadie habla sobre el Club de la lucha. La segunda regla de...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK ¡La poesía no es de quien la escribe, sino de quien la usa!
ANTONIO SKáRMETA Su voz y las palabras de los otros, que salen como cascadas de los libros, no son para aprender nada...
BENITO TAIBO El peor de los sabios es el que visita a un príncipe; el mejor príncipe es el que visita a un sabi...
IDRIES SHAH Pero es más que sólo un arañazo. Es un puñetazo en el estómago y una bofetada en la cara. Es un...
JAY ASHER La vida es un regalo diario. Valóralo. Al final, lo que importa no son los años de vida, sino la v...
PAOLA CALASANZ ''DULCINEA'' Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas...
VICTOR HUGO Porque, en la vida real, el amor necesita ser posible. Incluso aunque no haya una retribución inmed...
PAULO COELHO De ahí que la amistad aparezca representada por pactos de sangre, lealtades eternas e incluso mitif...
DAVID TRUEBA 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 En el camino, solo la partida es sufrimiento; el transcurso es aprendizaje y la llegada es la recomp...
MARCOS LLEMES ¿Cómo es el refrán? ¿Karma Sutra: ¿El destino te ha follado en todo tipo de modos creati...
LINDA KAGE La vida ambulante es la que mejor me conviene. Ir de camino con buen tiempo, por un país hermoso, s...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU el hábito de la desesperación es peor que la desesperación misma.
ALBERT CAMUS Yo tenía la impresión de que mi hermano no sólo había enloquecido del todo, sino que se estaba v...
ITALO CALVINO que la vida es simplemente una colección de vivencias a las que les ponemos un título, cada una de...
NICHOLAS SPARKS El tiempo es la magia más fuerte de todas.
JESSICA KHOURY El héroe verdadero de El Eternauta es un héroe colectivo, un grupo humano. Refleja así, aunque si...
HéCTOR GERMáN OESTERHELD La felicidad la pueden experimentar en toda su intensidad sólo los que han vivido grandes altibajos...
FRANCESC MIRALLES Enamorarse puede no ser una decisión consciente, pero ahorrarse la situación antes de que suceda l...
COLLEEN HOOVER La historia de ese gato es algo extraña. No es que yo quisiera tener una mascota ni nada, sólo suc...
MARIAM PARRA —Pero ¿cómo es posible alejarse de algo y regresar al mismo tiempo?
—Resulta fácil. Pien...
NEIL GAIMAN Yo ya no sé que escribir... Es mi forma de saber que ya te olvidé
J. PORCUPINE Hay una realidad que demuestra la verdad de un hecho. Porque nuestra memoria y nuestros sentidos son...
HARUKI MURAKAMI "Aprender sin pensar es inútil. Pensar sin aprender es peligroso." [ Confucio ]
FERNANDO CORMENZANA En la vida no todo es seguridad. Es ser capaces de recoger los pedazos después de que todo haya pas...
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UMBERTO ECO It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it prope...
UMBERTO ECO Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you...
UMBERTO ECO Any fact becomes important when it’s connected to another. The connection changes the perspective;...
UMBERTO ECO Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one lo...
UMBERTO ECO Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevanc...
UMBERTO ECO The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous...
UMBERTO ECO In this universe of ours, with its wealth of errors and legends, historical data and false informati...
UMBERTO ECO When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everythi...
UMBERTO ECO The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity.
UMBERTO ECO Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm wha...
UMBERTO ECO I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm d...
UMBERTO ECO In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is...
UMBERTO ECO Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel un...
UMBERTO ECO I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows that...
UMBERTO ECO When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembe...
UMBERTO ECO Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
UMBERTO ECO Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respira...
UMBERTO ECO But I must hope that books possess a life of a more varied kind than their authors' myopia concedes ...
UMBERTO ECO [...] there is one inexorable law of technology, and it is this: when revolutionary inventions becom...
UMBERTO ECO I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
UMBERTO ECO إنّ الهواتفَ الجوَّالة لا يمكنها أن تدوم ، أوّلًا ، لأن...
UMBERTO ECO حتىٰ الآن لا تصلح الهواتف الجوَّالة إلَّا للأزواج الخا...
UMBERTO ECO But is the unicorn a falsehood? It's the sweetest of animals and a noble symbol. It stands for Chris...
UMBERTO ECO L'essere umano è davvero una creatura straordinaria. Ha scoperto il fuoco, edificato città, scritt...
UMBERTO ECO To survive, you must tell stories.
UMBERTO ECO Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn...
UMBERTO ECO Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tact...
UMBERTO ECO Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty part...
UMBERTO ECO The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer,
the wheel. Once invented it cannot be improve...
UMBERTO ECO The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. And they become all the more ev...
UMBERTO ECO The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body.
UMBERTO ECO Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep...
UMBERTO ECO For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded ...
UMBERTO ECO The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are th...
UMBERTO ECO I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our ba...
UMBERTO ECO And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most lovi...
UMBERTO ECO All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are...
UMBERTO ECO But why do some people support [the heretics]?"
"Because it serves their purposes, which conce...
UMBERTO ECO In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a...
UMBERTO ECO There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I...
UMBERTO ECO But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of tho...
UMBERTO ECO لا أعرف شيئا ليس هناك شيئ أعلمه .و إنما بعض الأشياء يحسه...
UMBERTO ECO ...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy...
UMBERTO ECO We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could l...
UMBERTO ECO This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the...
UMBERTO ECO How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by
the often perverse wisdom of man!
UMBERTO ECO Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.
UMBERTO ECO A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a nove...
UMBERTO ECO كان رجال العهود الغابرة وسيمي الطلعة طويلي القامة و �...
UMBERTO ECO True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in...
UMBERTO ECO Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same ...
UMBERTO ECO We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
UMBERTO ECO Love is wiser than wisdom.
UMBERTO ECO Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now...
UMBERTO ECO Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in ev...
UMBERTO ECO the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most ...
UMBERTO ECO American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100
degrees centigrade in pla...
UMBERTO ECO The fact that for tens of thousands of years humanity has used warfare as a solution for states of d...
UMBERTO ECO Priešas turi būti atpažįstamas ir baisus, jis turi būti tavo namuose arba prie durų slenksčio...
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