“ We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. ”
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“ Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. ”
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“ For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The Gspot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time. ”
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“ How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself. ”
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“ Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change. ”
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“ Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences. ”
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“ Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change ”
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“ Sadness and boredom were more bearable than the effort of living a normal life. Perhaps the idea of death began to hover over her during that period, as a kind of higher order of lassitude in which she would not have to move the blood in her veins or the air in her lungs; her repose would be absolute not to think, not to feel, not to be. ”
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“ Death, with its ancestral weight of terrors, is merely the abandonment of an unserviceable shell at the time the spiritis reintegrated into the unified energy of the cosmos. The end of life, like birth, is a stagein a voyage, and deserves the compassion we accord to its beginnings. There is absolutely no virtue in prolonging the heartbeat and tremors of a body beyond its natural span... ”
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“ Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me. ”
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“ Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process. ”
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“ My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's. ”
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“ At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the fleshandblood creatures around me. ”
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“ Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages ”
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“ الكتابة مثل الشعوذة : لايكفي إخراج أرنب من القبعة ، بل يجب عمل ذلك بأناقة وطريقة ممتعة ”
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“ Mediante la fotografía y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condición fugaz de mi existencia, atrapar los momentos antes de que se desvanezcan, despejar la confusión de mi pasado. ”
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“ They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical wellbeing in another. ”
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“ I have a hundredyearold aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even the Little Sisters of Charity, could tolerate her for more than a few weeks, so the family has had to look after her. Believe me, there is nothing so insufferable as a saint, I wouldn't sic one on my worst enemy. ”
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“ Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a direct understanding with God while everyone else must pass through the priestly bureaucracy. ”
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“ — Fericirea nu e pentru toţi, Cathy. — Ba sigur că e! Toţi ne naştem fericiţi. Pe drum, viaţa ni se mai murdăreşte, dar putem să o spălăm. Iar fericirea nu e exuberantă şi zgomotoasă, precum plăcerea sau bucuria. E tăcută, liniştită, suavă, e o stare interioară de satisfacţie ce începe prin a te iubi pe tine însuţi. ”
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“ At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know it was not I: it was another woman, who kept her notebooks so that one day I could use them. I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously. ... That's why my Grandmother Clara wrote in her notebooks, in order to see things in their true dimension and to defy her own poor memory. ”
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“ The calendar is a human invention; time does not exist on the spiritual level. ”
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“ [D]as Gedächtnis [ist] schwach und der Lauf eines Lebens kurz und alles [geschieht] so rasch, dass wir den Zusammenhang zwischen den Ereignissen nicht mehr sehen, die Folgen der Taten nicht mehr ermessen können, wir glauben an die Fiktion der Zeit, an Gegenwart, Vergangenheit und Zukunft, aber es kann auch sein, dass alles gleichzeitig geschieht [...] ”
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“ The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night. ”
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“ The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night. ”
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