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1963c6d Yo no queria creer que hubiera traicionado a su companero de toda la vida. Bueno, la politica es eso, abrirse camino entre cadaveres. Mario Vargas Llosa
e0d151e And what do I do?" replied Turk. "What do thirty or forty percent of Dominicans do? Aren't we all working for the government or its businesses? Only the very rich can allow themselves the luxury of not working for Trujillo." Mario Vargas Llosa
0ac00f8 La eliminacion fisica de la Bestia es bien vista por Dios si con ella se libera a un pueblo. Mario Vargas Llosa
b6d1d3f Las presentes paginas contienen los mas valiosos "secretos" que logre recopilar a lo largo de mi larga y fructifera carrera, incluyendo notas sobre los diferentes metodos y tecnicas empleados por grandes autores de la talla de Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, J. K. Rowling, Mario Vargas Llosa, Isaac Asimov, Julio Cortazar, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Verne, Horacio Quiroga, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, R. L. Stevenson, Juan Ru.. Álvaro Parra Pinto
5cd1463 Resulta increible que filosofos respetables, como Merleau-Ponty en su libro Humanisme et terreur, validaran esas monstruosidades juridicas --verdaderos asesinatos legales--en nombre de la <> de la lucha de clases y del partido comunista como representante y vanguardia del proletariado. Mario Vargas Llosa
69d20e3 como la idea de que reemplazar el vivir por el representar, hacer de la vida una espectadora de si misma, implica un empobrecimiento de lo humano (proposicion n.o 30). Mario Vargas Llosa
e08181d El gran adversario de la civilizacion es, segun Hayek, el constructivismo o la ingenieria social, la pretension de elaborar intelectualmente un modelo economico y politico y querer luego implantarlo en la realidad, algo que solo es posible mediante la fuerza --una violencia que degenera en dictadura-- y que ha fracasado en todos los casos en que se intento. Mario Vargas Llosa
2d710ae El aporte de Gramsci al marxismo consistio, sobre todo, en conferir a la intelligentsia la funcion historica y social que en los textos de Marx y de Lenin era monopolio de la clase obrera. Mario Vargas Llosa
d0ca0a8 Mi optimismo se apoya en esta conviccion antigramsciana: no es la intelligentsia la que hace la historia. Por lo general, los pueblos --esas mujeres y hombres sin cara y sin nombre, las <>, como los llamaba Montaigne-- son mejores que la mayoria de sus intelectuales: mas sensatos, mas pragmaticos, mas democraticos, mas libres, a la hora de decidir sobre asuntos sociales y politicos. Mario Vargas Llosa
4f44eac No hay manera de centralizar todos los conocimientos desperdigados en la multitud de mentes individuales que conforman una sociedad, ni de averiguar los apetitos, ambiciones, necesidades, intereses, cuyo tramado y coexistencia van a determinar la evolucion historica de un pais. La planificacion, llevada a sus ultimas consecuencias, conduce a la centralizacion del poder. Este, progresivamente va sustituyendo al anormal desenvolvimiento de to.. Mario Vargas Llosa
50834fd En un primer momento, los sucesos de Mayo del 68 tuvieron el cariz de una revolucion libertaria --en todo caso, antiestalinista--en la sociedad francesa, encabezada por los estudiantes. Asistentes y catedraticos, asi como empleados universitarios, se sumaron a la rebelion, se ocuparon locales universitarios donde se establecieron comunas, se levantaron barricadas, hubo asambleas casi diarias, tumultuosas, en las que se votaban propuestas si.. Mario Vargas Llosa
15bbc37 las alianzas mafiosas del poder politico y empresarios influyentes para, prostituyendo el mercado, repartirse dadivas, monopolios y prebendas--. Mario Vargas Llosa
fba86ed El secreto de la felicidad, o, por lo menos, de la tranquilidad, es saber separar el sexo del amor. Y, si es posible, eliminar el amor romantico de tu vida, que es el que hace sufrir. Asi se vive mas tranquilo y se goza mas. relationships sex Mario Vargas Llosa
c30bfc6 But remember, the first thing you learn in the army is to be a man. And what do men do? They smoke, they drink, they gamble, they fuck. The cadets all know they get expelled of they're discovered. IF, Gamboa. We've already expelled quite a few. But the smart ones don't get caught. If they're going to be men, they have to take chances, they have to use their wits. That's the way the army is. Discipline isn't enough. You've got to have guts, .. Mario Vargas Llosa
dd4d969 Unless the servant erects an iron-wall around his baser self, he cannot taste relish of his worship. Bishr the Barefoot
b2bf5e1 If speaking pleases you, be silent! If silence pleases you, Speak! Bishr the Barefoot
30fe04c Renunciation is a king who does not dwell anywhere but in an emptied heart. Bishr the Barefoot
fe116ca Fear of God is king that dwells only in the heart of a pious one. Bishr the Barefoot
e4e4563 Fermentation is domesticated decomposition--rot rehoused. Merlin Sheldrake
6f1e136 The best station is that of firm belief in patience through poverty until the grave. Bishr the Barefoot
9477ce3 Bitcoin may be the TCP/IP of money. Bitcoin
22d118b bitcoin is] probably rat poison squared. Bitcoin
5f303c8 I'm a big fan of Bitcoin. Bitcoin
f6fea67 I think there is a 20% chance that Bitcoin will become a huge, worldwide success. Bitcoin
682d319 Failure makes people bitter and cruel. Bitterness
679176a That loss is common would not make Bitterness
3613b01 When Sister Ibinabo was talking to Christie, with that poisonous spite she claimed was religious guidance, Ifemelu had looked at her and suddenly seen something of her own mother. Her mother was a kinder and simpler person, but like Sister Ibinabo, she was a person who denied that things were as they were. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
01434ac ha certas coisas que acontecem e para as quais nao podemos formular um porque, para as quais os porques simplesmente nao existem e para as quais, talvez, eles nao sejam necessarios chimamanda ngozi adichie
531ed61 When streams of unkindness, as bitter as gall,Bubble up from the heart to the tongue. Bitterness
b5329b8 Sed ut acerbum est, pro benefactis quom malis messem metas! Bitterness
9bcf853 There is a snake in thy smile, my dear,And bitter poison within thy tear. Bitterness
3c0c584 and begin a life in which she alone determined the margins. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
5a12cea The rude stranger in the supermarket--who knew what problems he was wrestling with, haggard and thin-lipped as he was--had intended to offend her but had instead prodded her awake. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
16206a8 Ogbenyealu is a common name for girls and you know what it means? 'Not to Be Married to a Poor Man.' To stamp that on a child at birth is capitalism at its best. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
fbee7f5 Richard wanted to ask why God had allowed the war to happen in the first place. Yet their faith moved him. If God could make them care so genuinely, God was a worthy concept. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
1fd0378 Yes. He's back at his desk." Blaine paused. "I think he expects this sort of thing to happen." "That's the actual tragedy," Ifemelu said, and realized she was using Blaine's own words; sometimes she heard in her voice the echo of his. The actual tragedy of Emmett Till, he had told her once, was not the murder of a black child for whistling at a white woman but that some black people thought: But why did you whistle?" Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
45831de There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman's well-being. Feminism Lite uses the language of "allowing." Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2975538 IFEMELU HAD GROWN UP in the shadow of her mother's hair. It was black-black, so thick it drank two containers of relaxer at the salon, so full it took hours under the hooded dryer, and, when finally released from pink plastic rollers, sprang free and full, flowing down her back like a celebration. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
a2421e5 man's ugly body thrusting into his sister's. It Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4e3ecd7 Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they see them as relational rather than as individual equal humans. Men who, when discussing rape, will always say something like "if it were my daughter or wife or sister." Yet such men do not need to imagine a male victim of crime as a brother or son in order to feel empathy. Teach her, too, to question the idea of women as a special species. I once heard an American politic.. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
d6d9b50 Um homem pobre ainda tem os privilegios de ser homem, mesmo que nao tenha o privilegio da riqueza. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
79bffa7 So instead of teaching Chizalum to be likeable, teach her to be honest. And kind. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
a674202 I know this remarkable Nigerian woman, Angela, a single mother who was raising her child in the United States; her child did not take to reading so she decided to pay her five cents per page. An expensive endeavor, she later joked, but a worthy investment. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
61a7bf6 CHAPTER 1 Princeton, in the summer, smelled of nothing, and although Ifemelu liked the tranquil greenness of the many trees, the clean streets and stately homes, the delicately overpriced shops, and the quiet, abiding air of earned grace, it was this, the lack of a smell, that most appealed to her, perhaps because the other American cities she knew well had all smelled distinctly. Philadelphia had the musty scent of history. New Haven smell.. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie