Nunca ha existido un esclavo que no escogiera ser esclavo. Puede que la elección fuera entre los grilletes y la muerte, pero la elección estaba siempre allí.
George R.R. Martin
Related Queremos que el fotógrafo sea un espía en la casa del amor y de la muerte y que los retratados no ... SUSAN SONTAG Esa pareja equilibrada no es una utopía ; existen tales parejas, a veces incluso en el mismo marco ... SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Gracia…, esa es mi palabra favorita de la iglesia. Un estado del ser, algo por lo que puedes rezar... ELIZABETH SCOTT El corazón siempre gana a la razón. El corazón, a pesar de ser insensato y suicida y masoquista p... J.A. REDMERSKI No permitas que ninguno de ellos te diga quién eres. Eres la llama que no puede ser apagada. Eres l... CASSANDRA CLARE Puede perder cosas materiales pero nunca podrá perder su maestría, lo que se ha aprendido, la pers... JACK CANFIELD ¿Cuál es la diferencia que existe entre yo y estas pequeñas y humildes criaturas? La araña teje ... IRIS MURDOCH Buscás eso que llamas la armonía, pero la buscás justo ahí donde acabás de decir que no está, ... JULIO CORTáZAR Dolor y muerte. Dos palabras que podrían resumir lo que ocurrió en Hollow Hallows a finales de su ... CARLOS J. EGUREN Es una mera ficción eso de que no existe un puente de unión entre una y otra gente, y que todos vi... HERMANN HESSE La verdad suele ser confusa; es la mentira la que tiene siempre los contornos demasiado nítidos. HéCTOR ABAD FACIOLINCE Cuando los adultos dicen: “Los adolescentes piensan que son invencibles”, con esa sonrisa maños... JOHN GREEN No te vendas, no te alquiles. Sé un alma libre y vela por lo justo. Es mucho mejor pasar hambre que... BENITO TAIBO Un hombre no puede olvidar la devoción que sentía por una mujer así, no debe ser, no puede ser CHARLOTTE BRONTë Sí, estaba cansado de que se enfadara sin razón aparente, de cómo se enfurruñaba y hacía refere... JOHN GREEN El corazón que ha encerrado se marchita lentamente y le crece pelo, lo que simboliza su propio desc... J.K. ROWLING Confía en ella. Tu hija es una mujer. Quizá la Iglesia diga que representamos el pecado, que debem... ILDEFONSO FALCONES Si el honor y la sabiduría y la felicidad no son para mí, que sean para otros. Que el cielo exista... JORGE LUIS BORGES Lo que mucha gente llama amar consiste en elegir una mujer y casarse con ella. La eligen, te lo juro... JULIO CORTáZAR Se puede vivir sin leer, es cierto: pero también se puede vivir sin amar: el argumento hace aguas c... RICARDO MENéNDEZ SALMóN Doña Lorena, una bibliotecaria sabia que rondaba por allí por las tardes, siempre me preparaba una... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Para los que sufrimos de amores, la mejor cura a nuestro corazon roto siempre a sido la mas simple..... CARLOS BARRIOS Gollum merece la muerte. La merece, sin duda. Muchos de los que viven merecen morir y algunos de los... J.R.R. TOLKIEN La vida es como una vela prendida. Todos cuando nacemos llevamos una con nuestro nombre reflejado en... AUDREY DRY Siempre he pensado, de hecho, que los seres humanos son 'frágiles' al amor. Sufren antes incluso de... ELISABETTA GNONE El sakia peleaba como un león para distinguirse y ennoblercese, no sabiendo que la vejez lo encontr... VICENTE BLASCO IBáñEZ La felicidad la pueden experimentar en toda su intensidad sólo los que han vivido grandes altibajos... FRANCESC MIRALLES Pero los escritores mienten, aun los más sinceros. Los menos hábiles, carentes de palabras y frase... MARGUERITE YOURCENAR El apócrifo aviso de la columna de 'busco trabajo'-'tengo auto, puedo viajar'- puede servir como ep... ZYGMUNT BAUMAN Pero el amor puede transformar en belleza y dignidad cosas bajas y viles, porque no ve con los ojos,... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No podrás evitar una lluvia que ya ha empezado, pero puedes decidir la vestimenta que te pones. Tam... BYRON ROMERO PEñA Pero es más que sólo un arañazo. Es un puñetazo en el estómago y una bofetada en la cara. Es un... JAY ASHER En cierto sentido, la visión del mundo que tenía el Partido se imponía con éxito a gente incapaz... GEORGE ORWELL Pero en los casos en los que no ha sido costumbre sino el más íntimo impulso el que nos ha llevado... HERMANN HESSE Los Padres son dueños de todo y la gente no posée nada; es la obra maestra de la razón y la justi... VOLTAIRE Todo el que disfruta cree que lo que importa del árbol es el fruto, cuando en realidad es la semill... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Ella, sin duda, era la encarnación de la belleza que encontraba en la Tierra. Tenía que pasar por ... ANAGABY ARRIETA pero el amor puede transformar en belleza y dignidad lo que es grosero, deforme y vulgar. El amor ve... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Que yo sepa, lo único que no da resaca y que disipa momentáneamente la muerte —tambié... MILENA BUSQUETS Cuando nos morimos, esas son las historias que siguen en nuestro labios. Las historias que solamente... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Nunca lo he considerado así, pero ahora tengo la impresión de que era inevitable que me ocurriera.... BANANA YOSHIMOTO Las personas realmente inteligentes, son aquellas que pueden hablar de cualquier tema y, entre esos ... ED HERNANDEZ Muchos de los que viven merecen morir y algunos de los que mueren merecen la vida. ¿Puedes devolver... GANDALS Muchos de los que viven merecen morir y algunos de los que mueren merecen la vida. ¿Puedes devolver... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Soy de donde haya alguien que sonría, que me de la mano, que me bese. Soy de donde son los que resi... BENITO TAIBO Ese chico roto en la playa parecía como hace una vida. Los años habían pasado, colegio y la NFL, ... NICOLE WILLIAMS La Tranquilidad es solo el espacio que existe entre un problema y otro. GERARDO PALACIOS BORJAS Cuando creí que iba a perder la razón ante tanto sufrimiento. Así descubrí que un ser humano no ... MARIO VARGAS LLOSA RECUERDE LA FLOR DE LOTO Las grandes personas siempre se burlaban de los que se sie... SUZY KASSEM … la muerte, por sí misma, sola, sin ninguna ayuda exterior, siempre ha matado mucho menos que el... JOSé SARAMAGO Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas... VICTOR HUGO La innovación es lo que le da vida y dinamismo a social media, siempre debes preguntarte si eres t�... CRISTO LEON La peor guerra es la que se da entre la humildad Y TU ORGULLO... RON CHACHAGUA La historia no ha cambiado. Hace mil anos ellos eran los duenos del mundo. Hoy en dia lo siguen sien... ANTONIO GUADARRAMA Yo solamente sabía que la quería y la quería para siempre… MOLLY MCADAMS Nuestra muerte ilumina nuestra vida. Si nuestra muerte carece de sentido, tampoco lo tuvo nuestra vi... OCTAVIO PAZ icen que a lo largo de nuestra vida tenemos dos grandes amores; uno con el que te casas o vives para... PAULO COELHO La tecnología etérea y digital que reemplazó a la imprenta ha alcanzado la mayoria de edad en un ... JARON LANIER Hace poco encontraron en el bosque un caballo salvaje. Estaba muerto. En otro lugar, una liebre. No ... SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH Si una mujer ofrece la mejilla para que su novio no la bese en la boca, hasta un ciego puede ver que... ISABEL ALLENDE Nadie rezará un kaddish por Weinstein -Harriet, ¿Cuál ha sido nuestro error? -Jam... WOODY ALLEN La mujer nunca podrá encontrar un objeto que realmente colme sus expectativas, por la sencilla raz�... TOLSTOI No puedo soportar más en silencio. Debo hablar con usted por cualquier medio a mi alcance. Me desga... JANE AUSTEN La labor más importante del ser humano es buscar la moralidad en sus actos. Es de lo que depende nu... ALBERT EINSTEIN Ojalá siempre intentáramos en tender a las personas antes de juzgarlas. Y ojalá la gente fuera ca... ALBERT ESPINOSA Separarse de la tierra y contemplarla desde arriba como los dioses es una blasfemia. No podemos ser ... N.K. JEMISIN La verdad es como una manta que nos deja los pies fríos. Ya puede uno tirar de ella hacia sí en to... N.H. KLEINBAUM Cuando las autoridades son muchas, tienden a cancelarse entre sí, y la única autoridad efectiva es... ZYGMUNT BAUMAN Que significa 'amar'? Durante anios he pensado que significa conocer a la otra persona..., conocerla... SáNDOR MáRAI Cualquiera puede ser encantador si no le importa mentir y decir todas las cosas estúpidas, obvias y... JEFF LINDSAY De lo que hemos dicho se desprende que la tarea del poeta es describir no lo que ha acontecido,... ARISTOTLE Es mucho más fácil no saber las cosas algunas veces. Las cosas cambian. Los amigos se van. Y la vi... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Estoy en este estacionamiento pensando que nunca he estado tan lejos de casa, y aquí esta la chica ... JOHN GREEN Creo que ese momento terminó. De veras lo creo. No obstante a veces, en la oscuridad, pienso que es... STEPHEN KING Las mujeres contribuyen más de la mitad de la nación y no es posible hacer labor legislativa seria... CLARA CAMPOAMOR Si los hombres supiesen lo que es la muerte ya no le tendrían miedo. y si ya no le tuvieran miedo, ... MICHAEL ENDE A los ídolos es mejor no tocarlos porque algo de la pintura dorada que los recubría se nos queda s... FLAUBERT GUSTAVE Dijo que las cosas no podían seguir por ese camino. Éramos todos hombres sensatos, hombres razonab... DASHIELL HAMMETT Otra vez tambores de guerra, y son siempre los mismos quienes los percuten. Decía Roger Garaudy que... FERNANDO SáNCHEZ DRAGó Es mejor soñar una vida que vivirla, aunque vivirla siga siendo soñarla, pero menos misteriosament... MARCEL PROUST Pero la guerra… Son los lápices rojos, las reglas y los compases, los mapas…. Motoristas, órde... ANGEL MARIA DE LERA Cuando se ha hecho la guerra apenas sabe ya nadie lo que es un muerto. Y además un hombre muerto so... ALBERT CAMUS Y al final resultaba que ser soldado de la patria no era precisamente defender el suelo, las fronter... MARIO BENEDETTI Pero, por triste que sea, la vida no siempre imita al arte. -Dexter JEFF LINDSAY La Lotería, con su reparto semanal de enormes premios, era el único aconteci... GEORGE ORWELL Yo quería a mi papá con un amor que nunca volví a sentir hasta que nacieron mis hijos. Cuando los... HéCTOR ABAD FACIOLINCE Pero siento como si conociera a Rue...La veo en las flores amarillas que crecen en la Pradera junto ... SUZANNE COLLINS Que haya otros que estén en desacuerdo con nosotros (que no tomen en cuenta lo que hacemos sino lo ... ZYGMUNT BAUMAN «¿Y mientras tanto?», preguntó el marqués. «Mientras tanto», dijo Abrenuncio, «tóquenl... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ El amor más hermoso es un cálculo equivocado, una excepción que confirma la regla, aquello para l... FEDERICO MOCCIA Mi abuela tenía una teoría muy interesante; decía que todos nacemos con una caja de fósforos ade... LAURA ESQUIVEL Desde el principio estuvimos unidos en la frontera entre la vida y la muerte. HARUKI MURAKAMI ¿Encontraré una mujer que, fiel y benévola, comparta mi suerte brillante y generosa, cuando ahora... LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH Espero que la salida sea alegre y espero no volver nunca más. FRIDA KAHLO La situación actual se parece un poco al chiste que hacían los trabajadores de la antigua Unión S... JEFFREY D. SACHS A veces, lees un libro y te llena con este fervor evangélico raro, y te convences de que el mundo d... JOHN GREEN Lolita, luz de mi vida, fuego de mis entrañas. Pecado mío, alma mía. Lo-li-ta: la punta de la len... VLADIMIR NABOKOV Siempre hay un momento, justo antes de empezar a leer, en el que el corazón me da un vuelco y me pr... NICHOLAS SPARKS - ¿Sabe que es lo peor de todo? Lo miré. No supe qué decir. - Que la voy olvidando. EDUARDO SACHERI Para una muerte bien organizada, la muerte no es más que la siguiente gran aventura. J.K. ROWLING
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MARTIN If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: ‘What’s great about... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He found Podrick Payne asleep in a chair outside the door of the solar, and shook him by the shoulde... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN No Queen has clean hands. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the qu... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Keep walking. If I look back I am lost. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends," Ser Jorah told her... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream.... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nost... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A sword needs a sheath, heh, and a wedding needs a bedding. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A man can make do with seven fingers. Seven is a sacred number. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs? GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are." He favored Jon with a rueful grin. "Remember this, boy. All... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Oh, I think not,” Varys said, swirling the wine in his cup. “Power is a curious thing, my lord. ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on pa... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves? GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He has hands like two white spiders. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He has an old man's caution and a young man's ambition, and has never lacked for cunning. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson...and he never was much use." --Walder Frey GEORGE R.R. MARTIN But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. I... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Plots within plots, but all roads lead down the dragon’s gullet. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no sfe way to grasp it. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Is that gallantry I smell, or just stupidity? The two scents are much alike, as I recall. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN In King's Landing there are two sorts of people; the players and the pieces. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN All the color had been leached from Winterfell until only grey and white remained. The Stark colo... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled aro... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It takes courage to admit fear. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.' 'Girls don't shav... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some men think because they're afraid to do . GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Harsh justice is still justice. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Never forget what you are the rest of the world will not. Wear it like armour and it can never be us... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We Lannisters do have a certain pride," said Tyrion Lannister. “Pride?” Catelyn snapp... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Do you think it will truly come to battle between them? If they should come to some accord—” GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Yours was the hand that threw him. You meant for him to die.” His chains chinked softly. “I... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not wa... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am Thunder and Thunder is me, we are one beast, we are joined, we are one. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The living have no place at the feasts of the dead. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I love the juice but I loathe sticky fingers. Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN No man is accursed as the kinslayer. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The kinslayer is accursed in the eyes of gods and men, GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It is too late for ifs, and too late for rescues,” Catelyn said. “All that remains is vengeance. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Wolves never cry. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN They held each other close and turned their backs upon the end. The hills that split asunder an... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The watcher on the walls. The sword in the darkness. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a l... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel,... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?' Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, an... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN and take the ironmen in the rear while they are beating off what they think is my main thrust up the... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Oh, yes. Choosing... it has always hurt. And always will. I know. -Maester Aemon Targaryen, A G... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Her name is Brienne," Jaime said. "Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?"... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Better to live shamed than die proud. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The crow commands, the captive must obey. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am alive, and drunk on sunlight. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some allies are more dangerous than enemies. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My enemies are legion. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?" <... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the North. You told me you could be strong. You have the wol... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work ag... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN