No puedo soportar más en silencio. Debo hablar con usted por cualquier medio a mi alcance. Me desgarra usted el alma. Estoy entre la agonía y la esperanza. No me diga que es demasiado tarde, que tan preciosos sentimientos han desaparecido para siempre. Me ofrezco a usted nuevamente con un corazón que es aún más suyo que cuando casi lo destrozó hace ocho años y medio. No se atreva a decir que el hombre olvida más prontamente que la mujer, que su amor muere antes. No he amado a nadie más que a usted. Puedo haber sido injusto, débil y rencoroso, pero jamás inconsciente. Sólo por usted he venido a Bath; sólo por usted pienso y proyecto. ¿No se ha dado cuenta? ¿No ha interpretado mis deseos? No hubiera esperado estos diez días de haber podido leer sus sentimientos como debe usted haber leído los míos. Apenas puedo escribir. A cada instante escucho algo que me domina. Baja usted la voz, pero puedo percibir los tonos de esa voz cuando se pierde entre otras. ¡Buenísima, excelente criatura! No nos hace usted en verdad justicia. Crea que también hay verdadero afecto y constancia entre los hombres. Crea usted que estas dos cosas tienen todo el fervor de F. W.
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NEIL GAIMAN ¿Encontraré una mujer que, fiel y benévola, comparta mi suerte brillante y generosa, cuando ahora... LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH - La gente debería tenerle miedo a Ursula Monkton - afirmé - Quizá. Y a qué crees que le ti... NEIL GAIMAN Las mujeres contribuyen más de la mitad de la nación y no es posible hacer labor legislativa seria... CLARA CAMPOAMOR El peor tipo de llanto no era el tipo que todos podían ver, los lamentos en las esquinas, el desgar... KATIE MCGARRY Estoy en este estacionamiento pensando que nunca he estado tan lejos de casa, y aquí esta la chica ... JOHN GREEN - ¿Sabe que es lo peor de todo? Lo miré. No supe qué decir. - Que la voy olvidando. EDUARDO SACHERI Y puedo ver lo que es el supersueño -joyas, pieles, perfumes, batas de seda, anillos, cuadros, auto... EDMUNDO VALADéS Yo quería a mi papá con un amor que nunca volví a sentir hasta que nacieron mis hijos. Cuando los... 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PATRICK GLEASON El amor verdadero no era precisamente uno de esos absolutos; pregunta en la cual la palabra <>... ERNESTO SABATO Espero curarme de ti en unos días. Debo dejar de fumarte, de beberte, de pensarte. Es posible. Sigu... JAIME SABINES Bea dice que el arte de leer se está muriendo lentamente, que es un ritual íntimo, que un libro es... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Era curiosa la forma como había adoptado el dolor que sentía. Había tenido tanto tiempo para prep... EDUARDO SACHERI He luchado en vano. Ya no quiero hacerlo. Me resulta imposible contener mis sentimientos. Permítame... JANE AUSTEN El "pero" es la palabra más puta que conozco -. "te quiero, pero..."; "podría ser, pero..."; "no e... EDUARDO SACHERI Yo he visto estos solitarios apretujados en increíbles racimos en los andenes y en los coches del t... ARTURO USLAR PIETRI Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero cuánto la quise. Mi voz buscaba el viento para tocar su oíd... PABLO NERUDA Yo no me callo Perdone el ciudadano esperanzado mi recuerdo de acciones miserables,<... PABLO NERUDA ¡Ay, ese niño, cuánto lo quería! ¡Se parecía muchísimo a mi pobre Henry! ¡Pero había decidi... HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Cuando me besas, Gwendolyn Shepherd, es como si perdiera el contacto con el suelo. No tengo ni idea ... KERSTIN GIER Creo que si alguna vez tengo hijos y están disgustados, no les diré que la gente se muere de hambr... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Entro Kriztina y aquel salon oscuro se inundo de luz. No solamente irradiaba juventud, no. Irradiaba... SáNDOR MáRAI Pero yo creo en el amor verdadero, ¿sabes? No creo que todo el mundo se queda con los ojos o no enf... JOHN GREEN ¿No irá usted a creer que todos esos bípedos que andan por la calle son hombre sólo porque anden... HERMANN HESSE Pero en esto yerran los jóvenes tan a menudo y tan gravemente. Ellos, en cuya naturaleza está el n... RAINER MARIA RILKE Pero cada uno de los hombres no es tan solo él mismo; es también un punto único, particularismo, ... HERMANN HESSE Pero el amor puede transformar en belleza y dignidad cosas bajas y viles, porque no ve con los ojos,... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yo te he nombrado reina. Hay más altas que tú, más altas. Hay más puras que tú, más ... PABLO NERUDA Si crees que hay algo que cambiarías en mi forma de ser y dices que me quieres... no puedo decir qu... CARLOS J. CUEVAS Todo el que disfruta cree que lo que importa del árbol es el fruto, cuando en realidad es la semill... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Siempre he pensado, de hecho, que los seres humanos son 'frágiles' al amor. Sufren antes incluso de... ELISABETTA GNONE Que yo sepa, lo único que no da resaca y que disipa momentáneamente la muerte —tambié... MILENA BUSQUETS La historia no ha cambiado. Hace mil anos ellos eran los duenos del mundo. Hoy en dia lo siguen sien... ANTONIO GUADARRAMA Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas... VICTOR HUGO -Me has dicho que no dura, que desear ser feliz nunca dura. Así que lo que me haría sentir complet... JACKSON PEARCE Queremos que el fotógrafo sea un espía en la casa del amor y de la muerte y que los retratados no ... SUSAN SONTAG Lo que mucha gente llama amar consiste en elegir una mujer y casarse con ella. La eligen, te lo juro... JULIO CORTáZAR Con tal disposición y determinación, ¡qué país es éste para el viajero, donde la más mísera ... WASHINGTON IRVING Pero es más que sólo un arañazo. Es un puñetazo en el estómago y una bofetada en la cara. Es un... JAY ASHER Algunas veces te levantas de la cama y ya no sabes porqué estás luchando. ¿Estás luchando el dí... EMILIO BUESO Y, entonces, en ese instante que tan solo dura un segundo, el cerebro se encarga de abrir la cerradu... AUDREY DRY icen que a lo largo de nuestra vida tenemos dos grandes amores; uno con el que te casas o vives para... PAULO COELHO Cuando se ha hecho la guerra apenas sabe ya nadie lo que es un muerto. Y además un hombre muerto so... ALBERT CAMUS El corazón que ha encerrado se marchita lentamente y le crece pelo, lo que simboliza su propio desc... J.K. ROWLING Los Padres son dueños de todo y la gente no posée nada; es la obra maestra de la razón y la justi... VOLTAIRE El corazón siempre gana a la razón. El corazón, a pesar de ser insensato y suicida y masoquista p... J.A. REDMERSKI Como ve, todos tenemos en nuestro interior los elementos necesarios para producir fósforo. Es más,... LAURA ESQUIVEL Hay criminales que proclaman tan campantes ‘la maté porque era mía’, así no más, como si fue... EDUARDO GALEANO Cuando el jardín de la memoria comienza a secarse -le había dicho Celâl una de aquellas noches-, ... ORHAN PAMUK En cierto sentido, la visión del mundo que tenía el Partido se imponía con éxito a gente incapaz... GEORGE ORWELL La Lotería, con su reparto semanal de enormes premios, era el único aconteci... GEORGE ORWELL No se puede pensar en lo que podría haber sido, Bryce—entonces, como si pudiera leer mi mente, a�... WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN Como si el mundo se encogiera en torno a un núcleo de entidades desglosables. Las cosas cayendo en ... CORMAC MCCARTHY
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JANE AUSTEN He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal. JANE AUSTEN An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your... JANE AUSTEN From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, y... JANE AUSTEN To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love JANE AUSTEN You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell m... JANE AUSTEN I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with ... JANE AUSTEN I have not the pleasure of understanding you. JANE AUSTEN I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. JANE AUSTEN There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the... JANE AUSTEN Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste it's fragrance on the desert air. JANE AUSTEN Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one... JANE AUSTEN It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and ... JANE AUSTEN An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her care... JANE AUSTEN I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. JANE AUSTEN There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give ... JANE AUSTEN To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for t... JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i... JANE AUSTEN There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. JANE AUSTEN Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that s... JANE AUSTEN Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the m... JANE AUSTEN A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in ... JANE AUSTEN The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really... JANE AUSTEN What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. JANE AUSTEN There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. JANE AUSTEN There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. JANE AUSTEN Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. JANE AUSTEN A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sp... JANE AUSTEN The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without... JANE AUSTEN It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little t... JANE AUSTEN She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she wa... JANE AUSTEN Her tears fell abundantly--but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it mo... JANE AUSTEN There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got al... JANE AUSTEN Beware how you give your heart. JANE AUSTEN My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great ... JANE AUSTEN Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affect... JANE AUSTEN You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any oth... JANE AUSTEN Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occas... JANE AUSTEN Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say... JANE AUSTEN The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o... JANE AUSTEN We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. JANE AUSTEN It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these... JANE AUSTEN How quick come the reasons for approving what we like! JANE AUSTEN Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. JANE AUSTEN General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. JANE AUSTEN You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you. JANE AUSTEN Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circums... JANE AUSTEN Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. JANE AUSTEN It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable. JANE AUSTEN I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself. JANE AUSTEN My dear, dear aunt,' she rapturously cried, what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and ... JANE AUSTEN One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it JANE AUSTEN But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not ... JANE AUSTEN Aunque me dieras cuarenta hombres como él, nunca sería tan feliz como tú. Mientras no posea tu bu... JANE AUSTEN It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well eno... JANE AUSTEN You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer. JANE AUSTEN It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in... JANE AUSTEN My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so m... JANE AUSTEN Vanity, not love, has been my folly. JANE AUSTEN They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again. JANE AUSTEN She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most ... JANE AUSTEN She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should ... JANE AUSTEN Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I ... JANE AUSTEN I am excessively diverted. JANE AUSTEN Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessn... JANE AUSTEN Every thing nourishes what is strong already. JANE AUSTEN