Ningún ser humano es indigno cuando se comprenden sus motivos. Ninguna vida deja de merecer la pena. Incluso el más malvado de entre los hombres, si conoces su intimidad, tiene algún acto generoso que le redime de sus pecados, aunque sólo sea un poco generoso.
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE La felicidad la pueden experimentar en toda su intensidad sólo los que han vivido grandes altibajos... FRANCESC MIRALLES Las mujeres que se fanatizaron con la liberación femenina fueron las que encontraron una manera mar... RICARDO ARJONA Él no tenía autonomía ni capacidad de decisión. El poder de decisión le llega al hombre cuando ... MIGUEL DELIBES Los nombres son lo primero que desaparece cuando se extingue el aliento y el corazón deja de latir.... NEIL GAIMAN En cierto sentido, la visión del mundo que tenía el Partido se imponía con éxito a gente incapaz... GEORGE ORWELL De ahí que la amistad aparezca representada por pactos de sangre, lealtades eternas e incluso mitif... DAVID TRUEBA Sentada enfrente de mis borradores, de repente me invadió el pánico como cuando un mago descubre q... ZHOU WEIHUI Lo bueno de ser inmortal es que no puedes beber literalmente hasta caerte muerto, como lo hacen los ... CATE TIERNAN Cuando tienes un gran amor, debes cuidarlo como si fuera una planta. Debes abonarlo y protegerlo de ... HIROMI KAWAKAMI Reprima sus asquerosos «instintos» paterno-machista de explicarle a ella cómo es en realidad. Aun... JOSEP-VICENT MARQUéS Muchos de los que viven merecen morir y algunos de los que mueren merecen la vida. ¿Puedes devolver... J.R.R. TOLKIEN El problema es que mucha gente tiene miedo a sufrir cuando en el pasado han tenido experiencias amor... DAVID COTOS Confieso que el Elixir de la Larga Vida me seducía más: antes de entender y sentir la presencia de... PAULO COELHO Se puede vivir sin leer, es cierto: pero también se puede vivir sin amar: el argumento hace aguas c... RICARDO MENéNDEZ SALMóN -Hay tres preguntas que toda mujer debe ser capaz de responder afirmativamente antes de comprometers... COLLEEN HOOVER Muchos de los que viven merecen morir y algunos de los que mueren merecen la vida. ¿Puedes devolver... GANDALS Ninguna definición compleja de lo que es o podrá ser la fotografía atenuará jamás el placer dep... SUSAN SONTAG Pero el sufrimiento pasa. Si la vida, que es todo, pasa, por qué no han de pasar el amor y el dolor... FERNANDO SAVATER El corazón de las personas es como un pozo muy profundo. Nadie sabe lo que hay en el fondo. Sólo p... HARUKI MURAKAMI Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas... VICTOR HUGO El árbol decidió viajar. Cuando logró desprenderse de la tierra, se dio cuenta de que s... ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY Si se lo permitimos, los niños pueden enseñarnos la salida. Hay una historia muy conocida de... BRIAN L. WEISS En Harvard y otras universidades, estudiaron la importancia de la actitud en el éxito de las person... JOHN C. MAXWELL Mira, todos los hombres son capaces de hacer lo increíble cuando están amenazados sus ideales. Per... HERMANN HESSE Porque no vivo ni en mi pasado ni en mi futuro. Tengo sólo el presente, y él es el que me interesa... PAULO COELHO Tu casa, al ser el lugar donde lees, puede decirnos cuál es el lugar que los libros tienen en tu vi... ITALO CALVINO Siempre hay un momento, justo antes de empezar a leer, en el que el corazón me da un vuelco y me pr... NICHOLAS SPARKS ¿Llegará el día en que sea capaz de sacármela de la cabeza? Incluso ahora que la situación en l... ADRIANA GONZáLEZ MáRQUEZ No hereden el odio. Después de cuanto acaba de pasar (las infinitas matanzas, los campos de extermi... JOSé EMILIO PACHECO Me entró entonces la duda de si habría poseído alguna vez un don que no fuese el de la fabulació... MARIE NDIAYE La vida es un regalo diario. Valóralo. Al final, lo que importa no son los años de vida, sino la v... PAOLA CALASANZ ''DULCINEA'' En cuanto al poder, se aleja a toda vela de la calle y del mercado, de las asambleas y de los parlam... ZYGMUNT BAUMAN - Estoy enamorado de tí, y no estoy en el negocio de negarme el simple placer de decir cosas verdad... JOHN GREEN La imagen digital es uno de los intangibles mas descuidados de las empresas y muchas veces es la pri... CRISTO LEON Nuestra muerte ilumina nuestra vida. Si nuestra muerte carece de sentido, tampoco lo tuvo nuestra vi... OCTAVIO PAZ William Rackham es lo que podríamos llamar un cristiano ateo supersticioso; es decir, cree en un Di... MICHEL FABER Pero en esto yerran los jóvenes tan a menudo y tan gravemente. Ellos, en cuya naturaleza está el n... RAINER MARIA RILKE El tiempo es cuestion de tiempo, la vida es cuestion de vida, la vida dura un momento, el tiempo tod... MICHELLE SANCHEZ Qué feo eso de que le digan a uno la verdad, sobre todo si se trata de una de esas verdades que uno... MARIO BENEDETTI Sólo en tu corazón está "tu propio bien". Muchos de los consejeros son fanáticos del auto-e... VIOLET FLORENCE MARTIN Dolor y muerte. 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MICHEL FABER El filósofo no pretende aparecer si no tal cual es, busca la verdad con el solo fin de conocer sin ... ARISTOTLE El paraguas individual es la imágen favorita de mi padre cuando quiere caracterizar el tiempo en qu... EDWARD BELLAMY Es más difícil sondear la mente de una mujer que los fundamentos de la mecánica cuántica. SHAHEN HACYAN El año pasado pregunté a un conocido diplomático norteamericano de la Sociedad de Naciones por qu... ALBERT EINSTEIN Mi amigo M dice que lo irónico de ser un zombie es que todo tiene gracia, pero no puedes sonreír p... ISAAC MARION Era ese llanto que sobreviene cuando uno se siente opacamente desgraciado. Cuando alguien se siente ... MARIO BENEDETTI Las calles, la plaza y los edificios no hacían un pueblo, ni tan siquiera le daban fisionomía. A u... MIGUEL DELIBES —Si yo bajara en busca de tu alma, ni todos los querubines negros juntos podrían apartarme de ti.... SYLVAIN REYNARD Se colocó el pelo detrás de las orejas, se puso la capucha y se la ató con el cordón. El farol i... JOHN GREEN como toda pregunta sobre el universo, esta vía de investigación nos obliga inevitablemente a pregu... J.K. ROWLING Y todavía los que no murieron bajo las chozas ni se rajaron los huesos bajo los árboles ni se desa... POPOL VUH Y la belleza es una forma de genio más elevada, en verdad, que el genio; no tiene necesidad de expl... OSCAR WILDE Hay que añadir que los hombres más respetuosos con al vida embrionaria son también lo que más pr... SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Pero en los casos en los que no ha sido costumbre sino el más íntimo impulso el que nos ha llevado... HERMANN HESSE Hay libros que tenemos a nuestro lado veinte años sin leerlos, libros de los que no nos alejamos, q... ELIAS CANETTI En los ojos de un recién nacido, si se sabe ver, es posible leer el infinito. DENIS MARQUET RECUERDE LA FLOR DE LOTO Las grandes personas siempre se burlaban de los que se sie... SUZY KASSEM La marea comienza a descender. Los árboles afirman nuevamente sus raíces en la tierra. Las olas VIRGINIA WOLF –Watanabe, ¿puedes explicarme la diferencia entre el condicional simple y el condicional perfecto... HARUKI MURAKAMI
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Whenever he had any conversation with Ender, it turned into a... ORSON SCOTT CARD What I want," he said softly, "is to stand in this meadow and walk in the light of the sun. ORSON SCOTT CARD The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life.... ORSON SCOTT CARD Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the ... ORSON SCOTT CARD Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning. ORSON SCOTT CARD The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was ... ORSON SCOTT CARD She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake... ORSON SCOTT CARD Humans mate with beings who challenge their supremacy. They have conflict between mates, not because... ORSON SCOTT CARD The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how fill... ORSON SCOTT CARD When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless... ORSON SCOTT CARD Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him. ORSON SCOTT CARD We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all th... ORSON SCOTT CARD It was possible, wasn't it, that he loved her, and that in this time of terrifying opportunity he wa... ORSON SCOTT CARD Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along--the sa... ORSON SCOTT CARD He knew he could always be smart later, if that turned out to be a better strategy. But once you adm... ORSON SCOTT CARD The other four houses yielded jewelry, wallets, credit cards, laptops, iPads and Kindles, even a cou... ORSON SCOTT CARD Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. ORSON SCOTT CARD Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins—thoroughly. ORSON SCOTT CARD I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classe... ORSON SCOTT CARD Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. ORSON SCOTT CARD Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it i... ORSON SCOTT CARD I listen to music constantly while writing. ORSON SCOTT CARD But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - par... ORSON SCOTT CARD God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - t... ORSON SCOTT CARD Working is hard and distracts from having fun. ORSON SCOTT CARD I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people. ORSON SCOTT CARD Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. ORSON SCOTT CARD Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, ... ORSON SCOTT CARD Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, becom... ORSON SCOTT CARD Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possi... ORSON SCOTT CARD I also remembered that you were beautiful." "Memory does play tricks on us." "No. Your fac... ORSON SCOTT CARD I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I... ORSON SCOTT CARD The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything ... ORSON SCOTT CARD The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided... ORSON SCOTT CARD We have to go. I'm almost happy here. ORSON SCOTT CARD Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty." Gideon Wyeth:"Why?" Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly,... ORSON SCOTT CARD You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create... ORSON SCOTT CARD Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given. ORSON SCOTT CARD Our great civilizations are nothing more than social machines to create the ideal female setting, wh... ORSON SCOTT CARD Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as on useful ones. ORSON SCOTT CARD Hive Queen: They never know anything. They don't have enough years in their little lives to come to ... ORSON SCOTT CARD It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had... ORSON SCOTT CARD Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside t... ORSON SCOTT CARD Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it. Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave... ORSON SCOTT CARD It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding ... ORSON SCOTT CARD I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving gr... ORSON SCOTT CARD Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. "Never mock a te... ORSON SCOTT CARD In order to learn, one must change one's mind ORSON SCOTT CARD Most people I know are trying very hard to be good people ... that's how we define virtue, ORSON SCOTT CARD It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes. ORSON SCOTT CARD I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. ORSON SCOTT CARD For he loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest so... ORSON SCOTT CARD The enemy's gate is down. ORSON SCOTT CARD "Dread is the first and strongest of the...kinds of fear. It is that tension, that waiting that come... ORSON SCOTT CARD Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes ORSON SCOTT CARD [That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between... ORSON SCOTT CARD Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (an... ORSON SCOTT CARD Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the musi... ORSON SCOTT CARD Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the le... ORSON SCOTT CARD I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve b... ORSON SCOTT CARD I don't freeze up because it isn't my battle. I'm helping. I'm watching. But I'm free. Because it's ... ORSON SCOTT CARD He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent. ORSON SCOTT CARD The highest beings of all are the ones who are willing to pay any personal cost for the good of thos... ORSON SCOTT CARD Ender leaned his head against the wall of the corridor and cried until the bus came. I am just like ... ORSON SCOTT CARD When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes. ORSON SCOTT CARD