“Acepta la locura. Crea el delirio. Establece la duda. Alimenta la paranoia.”
“Tememos que nos maten. Pero es mucho peor que nos destruyan.”
“El mayor lujo de nuestra existencia, por miserable que sea, es que no sabemos los días que nos han tocado en suerte”
“Hasta los malos poetas aman la muerte”
“El mejor juego es aquel en el que no te das cuenta de que estas jugando.”
“What I was, isn’t what I am. And what I am, isn’t yet what I can be.”
“La vida rara vez era tan sencilla y tan armoniosa, normalmente nos estorbamos los unos a los otros.”
“Las manos no son lo verdaderamente peligroso. Lo verdaderamente peligroso es, es lo que tenemos en la cabeza".”
“Lugares impersonales para hombres y mujeres que ganan dinero y lo gastan con la mayor rapidez posible y que piensan que, de algun modo, eso tiene sentido.”
“Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia.”
“—Nadie puede volver a empezar, por lo menos que yo sepa. Todos decimos que queremos encontrar una manera de empezar la vida de nuevo, pero las cosas no son así.”
“Lo que nos amenaza de verdad y cuesta más de combatir es algo que procede de nuestro interior. El impacto y el dolor de una pesadilla pueden ser mucho mayores que el de un puñetazo. Asimismo, a veces lo que duele no es tanto ese puñetazo como la emoción tras él...”
“A man without a past, he thought, can write any future.”
“que algo te incomode no significa que debas ignorarlo”
“That truth is far stronger than death.”
“The best game to play, he thought, is the game you don’t realize you are playing.”
“Once, he reminded himself, I studied hard to learn to save lives. Now I must educate myself in how to take one.”
“Después de todo, a mi modo, estoy aquí para guiarte. El problema es que la palabra «guía» tiene connotaciones positivas que pueden ser incorrectas. Puede que tenga que dirigirte hacia dónde no quieras ir.”
“«Creamos y después, cuando la creación sale mal, queremos culpar a otros, cuando normalmente somos nosotros los responsables»,”
“La vida no es más que eso, indicó el viejo analista meneando la cabeza. Un juego tras otro . Y la muerte es el mayor juego de todos.”
“—Todo el mundo necesita un guía que lo lleve hacia el infierno,”
“¿No nos lastiman aquellos a quienes amamos y respetamos más que aquellos a quienes odiamos y tememos?”
“Los procedimientos existen para impedir el contacto, no para favorecerlo. La gente sin imaginación y sin ideas llena su cabeza con programas y procedimientos. La gente con carácter sabe cuándo prescindir de los procedimientos.”
“Psychoanalysis teaches one thing, he thought: Nothing ever happens in a vacuum. A single bad act can have all sorts of repercussions.”
“Dreams were important, unconscious riddles that mirrored the heart.”
“«El mayor lujo de nuestra existencia, por miserable que sea, es que no sabemos los días que nos han tocado en suerte»,”
“It was a difficult day. Disorienting. What is it they say? Death, divorce, and moving are the three most stressful events for your heart. And your psyche, too, I’ll wager.”
“Considera las palabras dichas como un medio de llegar a la verdad. Yo las considero un medio para ocultarla.”
“una locura con un inconfundible toque de inteligencia, porque provocará que me sume a ella.»”
“La gente se sacrifica sin cesar para que otros puedan vivir. Los soldados en combate. Los bomberos en un edificio en llamas. Los policías en las calles de una ciudad. ¿Es ti vida tan feliz, tan productiva y tan importante para que asumamos automáticamente que es más valiosa que lo que podría costar?”
“I’m not sharing. You’re mine. No one will touch you but me. I have an addictive personality. I always have. And you just became my number one addiction. I’m gonna want this. A lot. I’m needy and demanding, and now you’re the only one who can meet that need.”
“A young woman, newly wed, may find herself in the delightful position of wanting to do nothing without the company of her darling husband. She may indeed discover that she spends all her waking hours with her fellow to the exclusion of every other friend or family member. This is understandable, but wholly unacceptable, to society.”
“all sin without distinction — is lawlessness.”
“I wanted to pray for an hour, but I keep thinking and thinking, and always sick thoughts, and my head aches - what is the use of praying? - it's only a sin! It is strange, too, that I am not sleepy: in great, too great sorrow, after the first outbursts one is always sleepy. Men condemned to death, they say, sleep very soundly on the last night. And so it must be, it si the law of nature, otherwise their strength would not hold out... I lay down on the sofa but I did not sleep...”
“Sebastian's eyes were the color of smoke and silver. His pale skin, raven hair, and naturally dark red lips, paired with a rebel attitude and a poet's soul, pulled me in like a dark, magnetic force.”
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