—¿Y qué ocurre cuando uno muere? —Tampoco yo lo sé. —Entonces, ¿por qué tener miedo? —dice Oswald—. Yo creo que no ocurre nada. Y si ocurre algo que es mejor que nada, pues mejor que mejor. —¿Y si lo que ocurre es peor que nada? —le digo. —No existe nada peor que nada. Pero si no es nada, no podré saberlo porque yo no seré nada. Oyéndolo hablar así, siento que Oswald es un genio. —Pero, y si no existes, ¿qué? —le pregunto—. El mundo entero seguirá viviendo sin ti. Como si nunca hubieras pasado por aquí. Y el día en que todas las personas que has conocido también hayan muerto, será como si nunca, nunca hubieras existido. ¿No te parece una pena que pase eso? —Si salvo a Max, no. Si lo salvo, existiré para siempre.
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- Matthew Prior, MATTHEW PRIOR The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. MATTHEW ARNOLD Thy sum of duty let two words contain,
(O may they graven in thy heart remain!)
Be humble and ... MATTHEW PRIOR They talk most who have the least to say. MATTHEW PRIOR We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are
here for, I do not know. MATTHEW ARNOLD Saw life steadily and saw it whole. MATTHEW ARNOLD [Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular
names and impossible loyalties. MATTHEW ARNOLD The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. MATTHEW ARNOLD If Paris that brief flight allow,
My humble tomb explore!
It bears: "Eternity, be thou
... MATTHEW ARNOLD Women were created from the rib of man to be beside him, not from his head to top him, nor from his ... MATTHEW HENRY Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an... MATTHEW DESMOND I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in ... MATTHEW DESMOND The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a fam... MATTHEW DESMOND We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable h... MATTHEW DESMOND Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions. MATTHEW HENRY Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the tri... MATTHEW HENRY In whatever adulation you get, there's truth and there's not truth. And wherever they dog yo... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Like ministers of information, consultants condense the message, smooth out the dissonances, unify t... MATTHEW STEWART Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your ange... MATTHEW PRIOR I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address ho... MATTHEW DESMOND When you're a young man, a young boy, all you want to be is that action hero; you want to be the... MATTHEW LEWIS I'm trying to inform people, so I try to present them with accurate information. MATTHEW YGLESIAS He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you t... MATTHEW SWEET To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation,... MATTHEW SCULLY I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone h... MATTHEW VAUGHN I've been in a couple of weddings where the coolest people that were the most day before so mell... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I'm one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do i... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by hi... MATTHEW HENRY There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So th... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photog... MATTHEW MODINE I had a realization in the midst of my happy marriage that I had kind of lost most of my friends - m... MATTHEW WEINER Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. MATTHEW ARNOLD My rule is to break one sweat a day. MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way. MATTHEW GREEN Wherever I was in the world, at the beginning of every consulting project, one thing was certain: I ... MATTHEW STEWART I would eventually leave the business in 1999 to work full-time as a writer, but during the previous... MATTHEW STEWART You don't have to be a Brad Pitt look-alike hero just to be courageous and help out your friends... MATTHEW LEWIS None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see. MATTHEW HENRY I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do ... MATTHEW BARNEY I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technolo... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd nev... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Poverty is a relationship that involves a lot of folks, rich and poor alike. I was looking for somet... MATTHEW DESMOND The texture and hardship of poverty and eviction is something that I think left the deepest impressi... MATTHEW DESMOND It takes a good amount of time and money to establish a home. Eviction can erase all that. MATTHEW DESMOND I think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, t... MATTHEW DESMOND When I want to understand a problem, I want to understand it from the ground level. MATTHEW DESMOND Payday loans are but one of many financial techniques - from overdraft fees to student loans subsidi... MATTHEW DESMOND Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to tak... MATTHEW DESMOND There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the ... MATTHEW DESMOND