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Por eso resulta tan desgarrador el amor de los hombres. No pueden evitar separarse de lo que aman.


Albert Camus

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CASSANDRA CLARE Pero yo creo en el amor verdadero, ¿sabes? No creo que todo el mundo se queda con los ojos o no enf...
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FERNANDO PESSOA Todos los esfuerzos--que no son pocos--hechos por el gobierno, en materia educativa, se diluyen en e...
RIUS —Pues ahí, no aquí [...] siguen morando en nidos y en «boudoirs», en cortes de justicia y en o...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q...
JAMES RHODES Gus, mi amor, no puedo decirte lo agradecida que estoy por nuestro pequeño infinito.Yo no lo cambia...
JOHN GREEN Y, entonces, en ese instante que tan solo dura un segundo, el cerebro se encarga de abrir la cerradu...
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THOMAS KENEALLY Es la esperanza lo que me impulsa a seguir; no hay garantías, como si se tratara de una apuesta. Pu...
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GüNTER GRASS No es que los oráculos hayan dejado de hablar, sino que los hombres han dejado de escucharlos.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Todo el mundo habla de lo que los demás dicen o no dicen.
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Ay de mí, por todo lo que jamás leí,
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HERMANN HESSE -Me has dicho que no dura, que desear ser feliz nunca dura. Así que lo que me haría sentir complet...
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ALICE KELLEN Como si el mundo se encogiera en torno a un núcleo de entidades desglosables. Las cosas cayendo en ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Este es un homenaje a los locos. A los inadaptados. A los rebeldes. A los alborotadores. A las ficha...
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GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Las mujeres contribuyen más de la mitad de la nación y no es posible hacer labor legislativa seria...
CLARA CAMPOAMOR Son múltiples los usos para las incontables oportunidades que depara la vida moderna de mirar —co...
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JOSé EMILIO PACHECO La muerte tiene mucho más en común con el amor de lo que imagináis.
RICK RIORDAN Ningún escritor se convierte en minoritario autor de culto por sí ​solo. Es el lector, que creye...
RAFAEL LECHOWSKI Resulta difícil hablar de moral; lo que ha sucedido es que hemos inventado unos principios morales ...
T.H. WHITE No estoy enamorado de ti. Ni siquiera despiertas en mí una de esas nostalgias aberrantes que los ho...
JOSé DONOSO Cualquiera puede amar algo por algún motivo. Eso es tan fácil como meterse un penique en el bolsil...
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MARIO BENEDETTI Siempre he pensado, de hecho, que los seres humanos son 'frágiles' al amor. Sufren antes incluso de...
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RICARDO MENéNDEZ SALMóN lo que allá abajo llamábamos amor era sobre todo el deseo afanoso de ser amados.
C.S. LEWIS Luego, dirigiendo una postrer mirada sobre aquel apuesto joven, que tendría lo más veinticinco añ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Sabrás que no te amo y que te amo
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la palabra es un al...
PABLO NERUDA Creo que el amor, como la eternidad, es una ambición. Una hermosa ambición de los humanos.(Mujeres...
ÁNGELES MASTRETTA Tenemos una sociedad de subnormales, y por eso la gente actúa como lo hace, y se hace lo que se hac...
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COLLEEN HOOVER —Te diré a lo que es real. Real es que yo estaba en la cárcel durante el último año, quedándo...
SIMONE ELKELES Las crudas realidades de las personas, los menos favorecidos, no deberíamos sentir esas realidades ...
PATRICIA VELáSQUEZ Sabes que siempre voy a estar aquí para animarte. Estoy tan orgullosa de ti que quiero que sepas qu...
LARA A. SERODIO Para eliminar el salvajismo en el mundo, hay que empezar eliminando el salvajismo de los deportes sa...
MARTíN BALAREZO GARCíA Los viejos tiempos no pueden repetirse. Como su nombre indica, son viejos. Los nuevos tiempos nunca ...
DANIEL GLATTAUER Quizas te sorprenda que me acuerde con tanto detalle de ese dia, de esas horas (...) A mi tambien me...
SáNDOR MáRAI Todos los secretos están guardados en un mismo cajón, el cajón de los secretos, y si develas uno,...
LAURA RESTREPO —Acabo de comprender por qué alguien quiso hacer el primer espejo.
Willow parpadea sorprend...
JULIA HOBAN Pero la guerra… Son los lápices rojos, las reglas y los compases, los mapas…. Motoristas, órde...
ANGEL MARIA DE LERA Todas las aves tomaron del fuegosu figura. El pensamiento también tiene su origen en el fuego. Las ...
LAURA ESQUIVEL El sakia peleaba como un león para distinguirse y ennoblercese, no sabiendo que la vejez lo encontr...
VICENTE BLASCO IBáñEZ Algunas veces lees un libro, sientes un extraño afán evangelizador y estás convencido de que este...
JOHN GREEN La mayoría de las personas no tienen tantos recelos ante lo sobrenatural como les gusta creer a los...
STEPHEN KING En cierto sentido, la visión del mundo que tenía el Partido se imponía con éxito a gente incapaz...
GEORGE ORWELL Me entró entonces la duda de si habría poseído alguna vez un don que no fuese el de la fabulació...
MARIE NDIAYE Y la belleza es una forma de genio más elevada, en verdad, que el genio; no tiene necesidad de expl...
OSCAR WILDE Yo no me callo

Perdone el ciudadano esperanzado
mi recuerdo de acciones miserables,<...
PABLO NERUDA Era peor la herida... eran peor muchas heridas... que saber la profundidad de lealtad y amor que yac...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de r...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ No puedes pretender que quien te ama te trate a ti menos cruelmente de lo que se trata a sí mismo. ...
HANNAH ARENDT La felicidad la pueden experimentar en toda su intensidad sólo los que han vivido grandes altibajos...
FRANCESC MIRALLES Lolita, luz de mi vida, fuego de mis entrañas. Pecado mío, alma mía. Lo-li-ta: la punta de la len...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Pasara lo que pasara, se concedería otra oportunidad. Una oportunidad justa, sin importarle lo que ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Pero en los casos en los que no ha sido costumbre sino el más íntimo impulso el que nos ha llevado...
HERMANN HESSE Ha sido evidentemente por aquello que llamamos responsabilidad que el primate se convirtió en human...
FERNANDO SILVA SANTISTEBAN Los nombres son lo primero que desaparece cuando se extingue el aliento y el corazón deja de latir....
NEIL GAIMAN ... tan seguro estoy de que mi alma existe como de que la perversidad es uno de los impulsos primord...
EDGAR ALLAN POE La mayoría de la gente no es mala, está interiormente sola, triste, dañada por eso daña a los de...
LUZ REFULGENTE.COM.AR Qué feo eso de que le digan a uno la verdad, sobre todo si se trata de una de esas verdades que uno...
MARIO BENEDETTI

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ALBERT CAMUS My conclusion will be simple. It will consist of saying, in the very midst of the sound and the fury...
ALBERT CAMUS Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can r...
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ALBERT CAMUS What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
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ALBERT CAMUS To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
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ALBERT CAMUS Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all othe...
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ALBERT CAMUS You can't create experience. You must undergo it.
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ALBERT CAMUS God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
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ALBERT CAMUS One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
ALBERT CAMUS Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the va...
ALBERT CAMUS The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
ALBERT CAMUS The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we c...
ALBERT CAMUS Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood ...
ALBERT CAMUS When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nosta...
ALBERT CAMUS The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
ALBERT CAMUS More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alon...
ALBERT CAMUS Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an ac...
ALBERT CAMUS Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, ...
ALBERT CAMUS Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let ...
ALBERT CAMUS To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not t...
ALBERT CAMUS If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that...
ALBERT CAMUS As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab...
ALBERT CAMUS Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
ALBERT CAMUS We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.
ALBERT CAMUS It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.
ALBERT CAMUS After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those ...
ALBERT CAMUS Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no ar...
ALBERT CAMUS To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case...
ALBERT CAMUS All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
ALBERT CAMUS In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expec...
ALBERT CAMUS Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face.
ALBERT CAMUS Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same ...
ALBERT CAMUS As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within ...
ALBERT CAMUS We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, ...
ALBERT CAMUS The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist ...
ALBERT CAMUS Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calcula...
ALBERT CAMUS True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, he...
ALBERT CAMUS Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, ...
ALBERT CAMUS In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.
ALBERT CAMUS At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
ALBERT CAMUS Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balanc...
ALBERT CAMUS Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.
ALBERT CAMUS More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinai...
ALBERT CAMUS Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
ALBERT CAMUS On certain mornings, as we turn a corner,
an exquisite dew falls on our heart
and then vanishe...
ALBERT CAMUS A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
ALBERT CAMUS That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
ALBERT CAMUS True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; he...
ALBERT CAMUS I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life ...
ALBERT CAMUS To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others
ALBERT CAMUS Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS Oh she's nice, she's kind, innocent too. She's probably pretty, the right one for you. So just forge...
ALBERT CAMUS He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
ALBERT CAMUS How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spa...
ALBERT CAMUS What is a rebel? A man who says no
ALBERT CAMUS Resist no temptation: a guilty conscience is more honorable than regret
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