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Everything around me affirmed there was nothing else I could do – yet everything inside me cried that I was not doing enough.

It will not be easy to let go of your deceased mother, who stands in her kitchen slicing potatoes and roast, who hacks ice from the sidewalk with shovels; she is marrow and bone, a kernel of morals, values, and lessons compacted like some astronomical amount of matter into tablespoons, one with sugar for your cereal, another, for your fever, with a crushed aspirin and orange juice. You love her. You mark time and space by her: she is someone you are always either near to or very far from.

On less lucid evenings, every library is a haunted cemetery.

I make them up,' I tell them. 'Out of my head.

A lifelong movie I already knew the ending to

Life changes. It shapes itself into the most indefinite things; can become its opposite in a matter of seconds. Sometimes people scorn the quick, sharp tongue of life, but I don’t think that’s fair. Why would you act against something that’s just doing its job?

The world, full of past sound, would be like the sky, full of past light. The world would be like the mind, for which there is no once.

Nunca se ha dicho sobre el alma nada mejor que esa frase de Browne que la define como «lo que hay en el hombre que no debe rendir homenaje al sol».

Convençuts que llibertat sense Socialisme és privilegi i injustícia i que Socialisme sense llibertat és esclavitud i brutalitat.