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Quote #34

“If you want to live in peace, listen, watch and shut up” (Roman proverb).
«Si quieres vivir en paz, oye, mira y calla» (proverbio romano).
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3 weeks
Quote #33

“‘‘Canada.’ My number. I was in ‘Canada.’ Cleaning command. We always had food. We unpacked the luggage of the new arrivals while their owners were sent to the gas chamber.’
‘You try to fit in or you’re the next to die.’
‘I don’t want us to be well here, while others out there… My wife is still in Auschwitz.’
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4 weeks
Quote #32

“‘That thing about miss [missing your homeland], nostalgia and all that is a lie. You miss the neighborhood, in any case, but you also miss it if you move ten blocks away. […] The homeland is an invention. What do I have to do with a person from Tucumán or a person from Salta? They are as foreign to me as a Catalan or a Portuguese. They are statistics. Faceless numbers. You feel part of very few
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6 weeks
Quote #31

“‘I’m sorry.’
‘You were trying to help me understand.’
‘No. I actually wanted to hurt you. Couln’t bear to see such dumb, beautiful happiness in someone. It was cruel of me.’
‘I am not sorry. If I know the world, I can improve it.’
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6 weeks
Quote #30

“‘You, Colm Doherty, do you know what you used to be?’
‘No, Pádraic, what did I used to be?’
‘Nice! You used to be nice! […] And now, do you know what you are? Not nice.’
‘Ah, well, I suppose niceness doesn’t last then, does it, Pádraic? But will I tell ya something that does last?’
‘What? And don’t say somethin’ stupid like music.’
‘Music lasts.’
‘Knew it!’
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Oct

11th

2023

Quote #1 · 1:41pm Oct 11th, 2023

"We must prefer the plausible impossible to the incredible possible; and the story lines must not be composed of irrational parts, but above all they must not have anything irrational, or else the irrational must be outside the plot" (Aristotle, Poetics).

«Hay que preferir lo imposible verosímil a lo posible increíble; y los argumentos no deben componerse de partes irracionales, sino ante todo no deben tener nada irracional, o de lo contrario, lo irracional ha de estar fuera de la trama» (Aristóteles, Poética).

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