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Pero, ¿cómo es que eso aún vive en tu mente? ¿Qué más ves en el oscuro fondo y abismo del tiempo? (Próspero)

...but a sense of strangeness will not leave me. I cannot feel at home among these things. There is my mother, there is my sister, there my case of butterflies, and there the mahogony piano, but I am not myself there. There is a distance, a veil between us.

we should never eat the liver of a polar bear because all the vitamin A in it could kill us.

Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again.

There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do.

I remember a television program I once saw; a rerun, made years before. I must have been seven or eight, too young to understand it. It was the sort of thing my mother liked to watch: historical, educational. She tried to explain it to me afterwards, to tell me that the things in it had really happened, but to me it was only a story. I thought someone had made it up. I suppose all children think that, about any history before their own. If it's only a story, it becomes less frightening.

I really got to know her quite intimately. I don't mean it was anything physical or anything- it wasn't- but we saw each other all the time. You don't always have to get too sexy to get to know a girl.

...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

Truth is beheld by the intellect which is appeased by the most satisfying relations of the intelligible; beauty is beheld by the imagination which is appeased by the most satisfying relations of the sensible. The first step in the direction of truth is to understand the frame and scope of the intellect itself, to comprehend the act itself of intellection. Aristotle's entire system of philosophy rests upon his book of psychology and that, I think, rests on his statement that the same attribute cannot at the same time and in the same connexion belong to and not belong to the same subject. The first step in the direction of beauty is to understand the frame and scope of the imagination, to comprehend the act itself of esthetic apprehension.

How easy is it for the proper false In women’s waxen hearts to set their forms! Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we, (30) For such as we are made of, such we be.

You mar our labour: keep your cabins:you do assist the storm[...] What cares these roarers for the name of king?

From the dark horizon of my future a sort of slow, persistent breeze had been blowing toward me, all my life long, from the years that were to come. And on its way that breeze had leveled out all the ideas that people tried to foist on me in the equally unreal years I then was living through.

I don't smile. Why tempt her to friendship?

أنا لست مغرما بمشاهدة المرضى.

Когда ты главный, тебе приходится думать и надо быть мудрым, в этом вся беда.

We know all men are not created equal in the sense that we believe - some people are smarter than others, some have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others - some people are more gifted beyond the normal scope of most men

Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets.-Miss Maudie to Scout

Oh, don’t you worry about that, Yossarian comforted him with a toneless snicker as the engines of the jeeps and ambulance fractured the drowsy silence and the vehicles in the rear began driving away backward.

Now that so many of its psychological problems had been removed, humanity was far saner and less irrational. And what earlier ages would have called vice was now no more than eccentricity—or, at the worst, bad manners.

She will be more hurt by it, for Robert always was her favourite. —She will be more hurt by it, and on the same principle will forgive him much sooner.