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While we are looking for the antidote or the medicine to cure us, that is, the 'new', which can only be found by plunging deep into the Unknown, we ha...more

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El silencio de la muerte es el peor de los silencios, porque el silencio rulfiano es un silencio aceptado y el rimbaudiano es un silencio buscado, per...more

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You have to listen to women. You should never ignore a woman's fears.

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All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them.

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For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths…

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No one knew what she was doing in Colonia Hidalgo, although it was most likely, according to the police, that she'd been taking a walk and had come up...more

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Another time, talking about his books, the baroness confessed that she had never bothered to read any of them, because she hardly ever read 'difficult...more

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Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening t...more

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Ivanov had been a party member since 1902. Back then he had tried to write stories in the manner of Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, or rather he had tried to...more

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Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening t...more

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While he was waiting, leaning on the counter at a coffee place, he remembered the dream he'd had the night before about Antonio Jones, who had been de...more

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The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those who can manage only a murmur, carry more weight tha...more

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He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he chose A Simple Heart over Bouvard and Pecuchet, and A Christmas Carol ...more

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Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that came f...more

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I wrote this book for the ghosts, who, because they're outside of time, are the only ones with time. After the last rereading (just now), I realize th...more