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Para la mayoría de nosotros la verdadera vida es la vida que no llevamos.


Oscar Wilde

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ARTHUR GOLDEN Ustedes piensan primero en obtener la producción más grande posible en el menor tiempo posible. No...
ALDOUS HUXLEY A veces nos vamos para tratar de encontrarnos. Al hacernos mayores nos perdemos. No sabemos qué hac...
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CARMEN LAFORET Pero el sufrimiento pasa. Si la vida, que es todo, pasa, por qué no han de pasar el amor y el dolor...
FERNANDO SAVATER La felicidad la pueden experimentar en toda su intensidad sólo los que han vivido grandes altibajos...
FRANCESC MIRALLES ...ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Nuestra muerte ilumina nuestra vida. Si nuestra muerte carece de sentido, tampoco lo tuvo nuestra vi...
OCTAVIO PAZ El pueblo antiguo que deseaba tener una clara armonía moral en el mundo, ordenaba primero su vida n...
CONFUCIUS La juventud es un engaño -un engaño de la prensa y libros de texto. ¡La mejor época de la vida! ...
HERMANN HESSE La ironía de la vida es como a un burdel sin prostitutas.
EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ ¿Qué sucedería al crear una vida lo bastante expansiva como para poder sincronizar varios contrar...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Qué es la vida? Un frenesí.
¿Qué es la vida? Una ilusión,
una sombra, una ficción, PEDRO CALDERóN DE LA BARCA Creo que en la vida todo es posible.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Es la posibilidad lo que me mantiene con esperanza, no la garantía; es como una apuesta que me hago...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Nadie sabe lo que sucede en la vida de nadie, salvo en la propia. Y cuando le arruinas una parte de ...
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L.M. MONTGOMERY 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 me ha dado la oportunidad de amar a tal grado que yo no soy importante
ERNESTINA SODI MIRANDA La voluntad, el deseo de vivir, es tan fuerte en el animal como en el hombre. En el hombre es mayor ...
PíO BAROJA No hay tiempo para el presente. Vamos del
pasado al futuro, que nuevamente se vuelve pasado: ¡...
FRANCESC MIRALLES 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 No hay razón para estar enfadado. La ira solo distrae la tristeza que lo abarca, el sincero conocim...
JOHN GREEN Confía en ella. Tu hija es una mujer. Quizá la Iglesia diga que representamos el pecado, que debem...
ILDEFONSO FALCONES La poesía aporta una gran belleza a la vida, pero también una gran tristeza, y no estoy seguro de ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Alimentados de pesimismo no vivimos la vida, la sufrimos.
MIGUEL DELIBES Bueno, todos debemos hacer cosas que no nos gustan, la vida es así.
RICHELLE MEAD La soledad es necesaria para alcanzar la santidad. Se han olvidado de que en la soledad la tentació...
CARLOS FUENTES Porque el tiempo es vida, y la vida reside en el corazón. Y cuanto más ahorraba de esto la gente, ...
MICHAEL ENDE La finalidad de la vida no es prosperar sino transformarse. Cuando uno se lanza a lo desconocido se ...
ELENA PONIATOWSKA Estoy en este estacionamiento pensando que nunca he estado tan lejos de casa, y aquí esta la chica ...
JOHN GREEN Seguramente, esas dos amigas no volverían a verse en meses, quizás pasaría un año, tal vez más....
CRISTINA CAMPOS –Watanabe, ¿puedes explicarme la diferencia entre el condicional simple y el condicional perfecto...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Yo tenía la impresión de que mi hermano no sólo había enloquecido del todo, sino que se estaba v...
ITALO CALVINO El primer paso, indispensable para lograr las cosas que desea obtener en la vida, es el siguiente: d...
JACK CANFIELD Y a pesar de que quizá alguien me llame loco o soñador, creo que en la vida todo es posible.
NICHOLAS SPARKS ¿Quieres entender que es un año de vida? Pregúntaselo a un estudiante que acaba de suspender el e...
MARC LEVY La vida es como una vela prendida. Todos cuando nacemos llevamos una con nuestro nombre reflejado en...
AUDREY DRY Más importante que la buena vida es lo que se pueda decir de ella; es decir, saber expresarla. No h...
MEREDITH HAAF que la vida es simplemente una colección de vivencias a las que les ponemos un título, cada una de...
NICHOLAS SPARKS No me había dado cuenta de la vida tan insatisfecha que tenía hasta que tuve más. Hasta que tuve ...
JACKSON PEARCE hay muchas cosas que le dan sentido a la vida en las que podríamos encontrar la felicidad que tanto...
ED HERNANDEZ El sufrimiento es impuesto a nosotros una y otra vez hasta que un día seríamos valientes sabios am...
SUZY KASSEM ¿Cuántos momentos de mi vida he desperdiciado para siempre por la culpa de esto?
JACKSON PEARCE Para la mayoría de las personas, la generosidad consiste en sólo dar. Pero recibir es también un ...
PAULO COELHO Que haya otros que estén en desacuerdo con nosotros (que no tomen en cuenta lo que hacemos sino lo ...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN Cada quien es lo que es, por lo que la vida le haya hecho ver y aprender
ED HERNANDEZ Porque, en la vida real, el amor necesita ser posible. Incluso aunque no haya una retribución inmed...
PAULO COELHO La magia de cada día no está en vivirlo como si fuera el último, sino en disfrutarlo sintiendo qu...
MARTíN BALAREZO GARCíA dulce es la guerra para los que no la han experimentado.
ERASMUS La labor más importante del ser humano es buscar la moralidad en sus actos. Es de lo que depende nu...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Pero la guerra… Son los lápices rojos, las reglas y los compases, los mapas…. Motoristas, órde...
ANGEL MARIA DE LERA El que corre por la vida, corre hacia la muerte.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Es el vicio de mirar atrás. Puedes pasarte la vida mirando hacia atrás, pero no sirve de nada
PATRICK ROTHFUSS ... la vida es ante todo luz y se necesita muy poco para apagar esa luz.
ISABEL ABEDI Creo que la idea es que cada hombre o mujer tiene que vivir su propia vida y luego decidir si la com...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Hasta la muerte, todo es vida.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Si es cierto que las casas se impregnan de la vida transcurrida entre sus paredes, en el caso de los...
ISABEL ALLENDE Sólo quiero que se haga justicia. Nada más. En toda mi vida he pensado que lo que quería era veng...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Las relaciones con otros son espejos de la que llevamos adentro, con nosotros mismos, muchas veces e...
MíA ASTRAL El problema es que se recuerda esta lista con una intensidad tal que su mismo ardor confunde los hec...
THOMAS KENEALLY – Es gracioso lo que la gente está dispuesta a hacer para que la recuerden.
– Bueno, o par...
JOHN GREEN La Lo­te­ría, con su re­par­to se­ma­nal de enor­mes pre­mios, era el único acon­te­ci­...
GEORGE ORWELL El peor tipo de llanto no era el tipo que todos podían ver, los lamentos en las esquinas, el desgar...
KATIE MCGARRY A medida que transcurría el tiempo, se afirmaba en la certeza de que el mundo y la vida eran más f...
ARTURO PéREZ-REVERTE La verdadera compasión nace cuando se entiende que lo que alguien percibe como la verdad es, a todo...
JAMES RODHES No tenían tiempo para pensar en el futuro. Pero luego las expectativas de vida empezaron a aumentar...
JOHN GREEN La vida es preciosa porque tiene final.
RICK RIORDAN Entro Kriztina y aquel salon oscuro se inundo de luz. No solamente irradiaba juventud, no. Irradiaba...
SáNDOR MáRAI Y al final dejó el horror de esta vida para entrar en el horror de la muerte.
FERNANDO VALLEJO Cuanto mejor protegidos de la contaminación están los valores preservados en el pensamiento, menos...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN Mira a todos a tu alrededor y ve lo que hemos hecho de nosotros y de eso considerado como victoria n...
CLARICE LISPECTOR Nada es más valioso que la risa. Se requiere de fuerza para reír y abandonarse a uno, para ser lig...
FRIDA KAHLO Una mujer debe tener dinero y una habitación propia para poder escribir novelas; y esto, como veis,...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Nuestra vida son los ríos
que van a dar en la mar,
que es el morir
JORGE MANRIQUE Si dejas de tener un propósito en la vida es como… como si te rompieras.
BRIAN SELZNICK Si dejas de tener un propósito en la vida es como... como si te rompieras.
BRIAN SELZNICK El mundo no se divide en gente buena y mala; todos tenemos luz y oscuridad dentro de nosotros, lo qu...
J.K. ROWLING Todo en ella es cautivante, como la consecuencia de una tormenta. No se supone que la gente obtenga ...
COLLEEN HOOVER Confieso que el Elixir de la Larga Vida me seducía más: antes de entender y sentir la presencia de...
PAULO COELHO El filósofo no pretende aparecer si no tal cual es, busca la verdad con el solo fin de conocer sin ...
ARISTOTLE Siempre nos cuestionamos la vida con mil preguntas que quizás no tienen una respuesta, pero ¿Por q...
ED HERNANDEZ Para una muerte bien organizada, la muerte no es más que la siguiente gran aventura.
J.K. ROWLING Todo lo que he aprendido hoy en la clase sobre Shakespeare es que a veces tienes que enamorarte de l...
JACKSON PEARCE La vida era como una canción.
En el comienzo, hay misterio, al final, hay una confirmación, ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Y la belleza es una forma de genio más elevada, en verdad, que el genio; no tiene necesidad de expl...
OSCAR WILDE La poesía no es de nadie, es de todos. Se hace cada vez que alguien con cosas que decir abre la boc...
BENITO TAIBO Es la imagen más pura de la mujer amada: la que aún no conocemos totalmente, la que se revelará, ...
HENRI BARBUSSE Durante toda mi vida he entendido el amor como una especie de esclavitud consentida. Pero esto no es...
PAULO COELHO Le rodeó la cintura con un brazo, con un nudo en la garganta.
—¿De veras?
—De veras....
NALINI SINGH Su contacto tenía una fuerza tierna y los dedos de ambos se entrelazaron con tanta naturalidad que ...
DAN BROWN En Harvard y otras universidades, estudiaron la importancia de la actitud en el éxito de las person...
JOHN C. MAXWELL …debes darte cuenta de que nos hemos pasado la vida desde pequeños respondiendo a la pregunta ‘...
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OSCAR WILDE I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
OSCAR WILDE Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
OSCAR WILDE The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
OSCAR WILDE A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
OSCAR WILDE True friends stab you in the front.
OSCAR WILDE Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
OSCAR WILDE It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
OSCAR WILDE Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
OSCAR WILDE It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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OSCAR WILDE Charity creates a multitude of sins.
OSCAR WILDE What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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OSCAR WILDE The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thin...
OSCAR WILDE We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows th...
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OSCAR WILDE Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by...
OSCAR WILDE Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
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OSCAR WILDE The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
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OSCAR WILDE I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
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OSCAR WILDE They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
OSCAR WILDE The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
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OSCAR WILDE They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
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OSCAR WILDE London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thorou...
OSCAR WILDE Once can survive everything nowadays, except death.
OSCAR WILDE For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die.
OSCAR WILDE I am dying beyond my means.
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OSCAR WILDE The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
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OSCAR WILDE There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they...
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OSCAR WILDE Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.
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OSCAR WILDE Punctuality is the thief of time.
OSCAR WILDE If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
OSCAR WILDE ...music is the perfect type of art. Music can never reveal its ultimate secret. This, also, is the ...
OSCAR WILDE Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, an...
OSCAR WILDE Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very m...
OSCAR WILDE None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
OSCAR WILDE Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.
OSCAR WILDE A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.
OSCAR WILDE The basis for optimism is sheer terror.
OSCAR WILDE A pessimist is an optimist with experience
OSCAR WILDE Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life.
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OSCAR WILDE What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
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OSCAR WILDE The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should g...
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OSCAR WILDE Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
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OSCAR WILDE Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
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OSCAR WILDE I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
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OSCAR WILDE He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
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OSCAR WILDE Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
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OSCAR WILDE To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies
OSCAR WILDE I drink to separate my body from my soul.
OSCAR WILDE He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his...
OSCAR WILDE Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is w...
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OSCAR WILDE Those whom the gods love grow young.
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OSCAR WILDE Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lum...
OSCAR WILDE Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
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OSCAR WILDE Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
OSCAR WILDE Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are re...
OSCAR WILDE To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be r...
OSCAR WILDE Nothing succeeds like success.
OSCAR WILDE When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
OSCAR WILDE An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
OSCAR WILDE Work is the curse of the drinking class.
OSCAR WILDE Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
OSCAR WILDE If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
OSCAR WILDE Time is waste of money.
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OSCAR WILDE In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
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OSCAR WILDE No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist.
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OSCAR WILDE Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
OSCAR WILDE All art is quite useless.
OSCAR WILDE It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
OSCAR WILDE The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
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OSCAR WILDE Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite en...
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OSCAR WILDE The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
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OSCAR WILDE Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
OSCAR WILDE As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really d...
OSCAR WILDE Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so oc...
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OSCAR WILDE The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
OSCAR WILDE There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.
OSCAR WILDE LORD GORING:
I am glad you have called. I am going to give you some good advice.
MRS. CHEVELEY...
OSCAR WILDE LORD GORING:
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OSCAR WILDE A poet can survive anything but a misprint.
OSCAR WILDE The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
OSCAR WILDE Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgi...
OSCAR WILDE Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect fo...
OSCAR WILDE Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
OSCAR WILDE As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
OSCAR WILDE People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about s...
OSCAR WILDE The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is...
OSCAR WILDE As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utteranc...
OSCAR WILDE The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generatio...
OSCAR WILDE That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating t...
OSCAR WILDE Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beau...
OSCAR WILDE I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across ... Please do not shoot t...
OSCAR WILDE I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
OSCAR WILDE Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your...
OSCAR WILDE Hatred is blind, as well as love.
OSCAR WILDE Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go
OSCAR WILDE It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then mere...
OSCAR WILDE Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and lit...
OSCAR WILDE Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteent...
OSCAR WILDE No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter enti...
OSCAR WILDE The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of...
OSCAR WILDE The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
OSCAR WILDE I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that...
OSCAR WILDE And beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is ...
OSCAR WILDE It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it
OSCAR WILDE Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem ne...
OSCAR WILDE Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
OSCAR WILDE Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's ow...
OSCAR WILDE Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
OSCAR WILDE To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is...
OSCAR WILDE Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes
OSCAR WILDE Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
OSCAR WILDE Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is...
OSCAR WILDE The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of ...
OSCAR WILDE And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness...
OSCAR WILDE It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
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