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• “La vida es difícil. Para estar en paz con uno mismo hay que decir la verdad. Para estar en paz con el prójimo hay que mentir.”

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• “Life has now taught me that love for things, like all unrequited love, takes its toll in the long run.”

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• “The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.”

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• “And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures... Which one will it be? Time alone will tell. But still I know that writing this diary can perhaps provide the answer; it may even help produce the right future.”

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• “The habits of our lives makes us presume that things will happen in a certain foreseeable way, that there will be a vague coherence in the world.”

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• “To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares,- to be in love with one of those images was worse than being in love with a ghost (perhaps we always want the person we love to have the existence of a ghost).”

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• “No espero nada. Esto no es horrible. Después de resolverlo, he ganado tranquilidad. Pero esa mujer me ha dado una esperanza. Debo temer las esperanzas. Tal vez toda esa higiene de no esperar sea un poco ridícula. No esperar de la vida, para no arriesgarla; darse por muerto, para no morir. Ya no estoy muerto: estoy enamorado.”

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• “Creo que parte de mi amor a la vida se lo debo a mi amor a los libros.”

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• “The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality: not only do we traverse a realm of shadows; but ourselves are shadows.”

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• “His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive.”

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• “I do not believe that a dream should necessarily be taken for reality, or reality for madness.”

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• “No fue como si no me hubiera oído, como si no me hubiera visto; fue como si los oídos que tenía no sirvieran para oír, como si los ojos no sirvieran para ver.”

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• “People love nobody as much as they do their hatred.”

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• “...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead.”

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• “Tal vez toda esa higiene de no esperar sea un poco ridícula. No esperar de la vida, para no arriesgarla; darse por muerto, para no morir.”

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• “Spontaneity is the mother of crudity.”

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• “I thought I had made this discovery: that there are unexpected, constant repetitions in our behavior. The right combination of circumstances had enabled me to observe them. One seldom has the chance to be a clandestine witness of several talks between the same people. But scenes are repeated in life, just as they are in the theatre.”

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• “Quien aspira a la gloria, piensa en sí mismo y ve a su libro como un instrumento para triunfar. Sospecho que para escribir bien, debemos pensar en el libro, no en nosotros.”

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• “En los momentos más terribles de la vida solemos caer en una suerte de irresponsabilidad protectora y en vez de pensar en lo que nos ocurre dirigimos la atención a trivialidades.”

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• “Creo que perdemos la inmortalidad porque la resistencia a la muerte no ha evolucionado; sus perfeccionamientos insisten en la primera idea, rudimentaria: retener vivo todo el cuerpo. Sólo habría que buscar la conservación de lo que interesa a la conciencia.”

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• “The case of the inventor who is duped by his own invention emphasizes our need for circumspection.”

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• “Uno se acerca a otra persona para divertirse o para quererla; no hay nada de malo en eso. De pronto uno, para no hacer sufrir, oculta algo. El otro descubre que le han ocultado algo, pero no sabe que. Trata de averiguar, acepta las explicaciones, disimula que no las cree del todo. Asi empieza el desastre. Quisiera que nunca nos hicieramos mal.”

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• “The influence of the future on the past," said Morel enthusiastically, almost inaudibly.”

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• “Ya no estoy muerto, estoy enamorado.”

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• “... to his efforts to perpetuate man: but he has preserved nothing but sensations; and, although his invention was incomplete, he at least foreshadowed the truth: man will one day create human life.”

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