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| 3011572 | 1.deg Dios no existe. 2.deg Dios existe y es un canalla. 3.deg Dios existe, pero a veces duerme: sus pesadillas son nuestra existencia. 4.deg Dios existe, pero tiene accesos de locura: esos accesos son nuestra existencia. 5.deg Dios no es omnipresente, no puede estar en todas partes. A veces esta ausente ?en otros mundos? ?En otras cosas? 6.deg Dios es un pobre diablo, con un problema demasiado complicado para sus fuerzas. Lucha con la mate.. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 534ff7e | I heard a story about her once,' said James. 'She was interviewing a psychopath. She showed him a picture of a frightened face and asked him to identify the emotion. He said he didn't know what the emotion was but it was the face people pulled just before he killed them. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 6727aaf | True strength does not come out of bravado. Until we are broken, our life will be self-centered, self-reliant; our strength will be our own. So long as you think you are really something in and of yourself, what will you need God for? I don't trust a man who hasn't suffered; I don't let a man get close to me who hasn't faced his wound. Think of the posers you know--are they the kind of man you would call at 2:00 A.M., when life is collapsin.. | John Eldredge | ||
| 8248429 | You can't fight a battle you don't think exists. | mind thoughts | John Eldredge | |
| 550ddf9 | No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language. | Jack London | ||
| 9b796b1 | He was a man without a past, whose future was the imminent grave and whose present was a bitter fever of living. | Jack London | ||
| f0832e4 | But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind. The lines at unemployment offices and churches offering free food includes strivers as well as slackers, habitual optimists as well as the chronically depressed. When and if the economy recovers we can never allow ourselves to forget how widespread our vulnerability is, how easy it is to spiral down t.. | poverty | Barbara Ehrenreich | |
| ab20be5 | Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 41cf9fb | But, like all happiness, it did not last long... | little-women louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| bf18f04 | Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way. | louisa-may-alcott love | Louisa May Alcott | |
| c7ec89a | A new heart for a New Year, always! | heart inspirational new-years | Charles Dickens | |
| b0c29da | My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 7212721 | S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. | expression eyes hypocrisy | Charles Dickens | |
| 2714a15 | There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more. Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe. | hopelessness | Charles Dickens | |
| 166fa6d | I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it. | definition existence finality life | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| 746cda8 | Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bomc,' I said. 'We have a protractor.' Okay, I'll go home and see if I can scrounge up a ruler and a piece of string. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| acbdc0e | I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights. | quixotic | Raymond Chandler | |
| 62d1eac | I don't know if I can face this. You know. The party and the ceremony, and then the hour after that, and the hour after that." "You don't have to go to the party. You don't have to go to the ceremony. You don't have to do anything at all." "But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another. I'm so sick." | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 9fc614c | The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there--shared vision and values. | value vision | Stephen R. Covey | |
| befe54c | Poor slob without a name. It's a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven't the right to give him one: he'll have to wait until he belongs to somebody. We just sort of took up by the river one day, we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I. I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together. | Truman Capote | ||
| 1eeaba0 | She's such a goddamn liar maybe she don't know herself anymore. | Truman Capote | ||
| 072aa30 | The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't. Only, I wonder--the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly? | Edith Wharton | ||
| 9d69133 | And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them ..." -- | Edith Wharton | ||
| 3563449 | something almost, but not quite entirely unlike tea | Douglas Adams | ||
| 6a6040c | She tried to worry that something terrible had happened to him, but didn't believe it for a moment. Nothing terrible ever happened to him, though she was beginning to think that it was time it damn well did. If nothing terrible happened to him soon maybe she'd do it herself. Now there was an idea. | worrying | Douglas Adams | |
| c8ec2cb | Thank you. Since we decided a few weeks ago to adopt the leaf as legal tender, we have, of course, all become immensely rich. [...] "But we have also," continued the management consultant, "run into a small inflation problem on account of the high level of leaf availability, which means that, I gather, the current going rate has something like three deciduous forests buying on ship's peanut." [...] "So in order to obviate this problem," he .. | fiscal-policy | Douglas Adams | |
| 6f78486 | If there's any real truth, it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 368951d | Then she fell on her knees, saying: 'I beg thee!' 'Nay, lady,' he said, and taking her by the hand he raised her. The he kissed her hand, and sprang into the saddle, and rode away, and did not look back; and only those who knew him well and were near to him saw the pain that he bore. | Éowyn j-r-r-tolkien the-lord-of-the-rings the-return-of-the-king | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| e88a585 | Far over misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day, To find our long-forgotten gold. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 89e3f5a | Oft it may be chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were heedful for the wise to know. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 7f32905 | O! Where are you going With beards all a-wagging? No knowing, no knowing What brings Mister Baggins, And Balin and Dwalin down into the valley in June ha! ha! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 981398d | Bilbo saw that the moment had come when he must do something. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| a06ed8b | Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better. | fair-words indiscretion silence speech thoughts | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 2976c0a | If you sit on the doorstep long enough, I daresay you will think of something | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 661a39e | The way is shut. Then they halted and looked at him and saw that he lived still; but he did not look at them. The way is shut, his voice said again. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| e5cabd3 | Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you and it as well. So up you get! Come on, Mr. Frodo dear! Sam will give you a ride. Just tell him where to go, and he'll go | j-r-r-tolkien samwise-gamgee the-return-of-the-king | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 1f802b7 | The Eleven king looked sternly upon Thorin, when he was brought before him, and asked him many questions. But Thorin would only say that he was starving. "Why did you and your folk three times try to attack my people at their merrymaking?" asked the king. "We did not attack them," answered Thorin, "we came to beg because we were starving." "Where are your friends now, and what are they doing?" "I don't know, but I expect that they're a.. | elves food friends king starving the-hobbit thorin-oakenshield | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 767f1e3 | And what do you wish?' he said at last. 'That what should be shall be,' she answered. | galadriel j-r-r-tolkien lord-of-the-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| bc36541 | There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for avast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own. However, nothing dispirits, and nothing seems worth while disputing. He bolts down all events, all creeds, and beliefs, and persuasions, all hard things visible and invisible, .. | Herman Melville | ||
| 49fbac3 | Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at the very moment the sweet pumpkin gave up its incensed ghost. | halloween moundshroud pumpkin | Ray Bradbury | |
| a3957b2 | I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously." [ | seriousness | Ray Bradbury | |
| f6d3db1 | Dad, will they ever come back?" "No. And yes." Dad tucked away his harmonica. "No not them. But yes, other people like them. Not in a carnival. God knows what shape they'll come in next. But sunrise, noon, or at the latest, sunset tomorrow they'll show. They're on the road." "Oh, no," said Will. "Oh, yes, said Dad. "We got to watch out the rest of our lives. The fight's just begun." They moved around the carousel slowly. "What will they loo.. | dark evil fear internal-conflict life light temptation | Ray Bradbury | |
| be43caf | Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| b7f1c28 | I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? | god son | Ray Bradbury |