Quotes - Javier Gil Jaime (giljavier) (Barcelona, Spain) Showing 1-26 of 26

#1

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

#2

“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
― Roberto Bolano

tags: death, fear, hope, peace, reading, sex

1388 likes

#3

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
― Franz Kafka

tags: julia-cameron, writers, writing

1519 likes

#4

“El pueblo, eterno esclavo de los tiranos que lo oprimen, de los bribones que lo engañan y de los bufones que lo divierten.”
― Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist

9 likes

#5

“There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

tags: allan-bard, fairy-tales, fantasy, michael-ende

315 likes

#6

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad

11456 likes

#7

“La literatura me ha permitido siempre comprender la vida. Pero precisamente por eso me deja fuera de ella.”
― Enrique Vila-Matas, Montano's Malady

17 likes

#8

“Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Platform

tags: life, nothing

423 likes

#9

“El dictador necesita multitudes vivientes, pero también muchedumbres de cadáveres.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

6 likes

#10

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: freedom, truth

2998 likes

#11

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

tags: love

6608 likes

#12

“To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed.”
― Roger Deakin, Wildwood: A Journey through Trees

19 likes

#13

“Como no sabía qué decir, le dije:
-¿Me das tu teléfono?
Ella me miró como si le acabara de proponer un maratón de coprofagia.”
― Kiko Amat, Cosas que hacen BUM

tags: humor

5 likes

#14

“This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

113 likes

#15

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

tags: escape, escapism, first-sentence, opening-lines, reality, sanity

1287 likes

#16

“Nuestro Herodes interior mata permanentemente a todos los niños que nos habitan.”
― Pablo d'Ors, Biografía de la luz

2 likes

#17

“If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.”
― Gilles Deleuze

tags: dream, fucked-up, funny, humor, other, philosophy, relationships

652 likes

#18

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
― John Keats, Letters of John Keats

tags: art, depression, growth, life, pain, suffering, wisdom

2653 likes

#19

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind

704 likes

#20

“Only prisoners have time to read, and if you want to engage in a twenty-year long research project funded by the state, you will have to kill someone.”
― Mark Fisher

177 likes

#21

“Like flowers in a storm, life is full of goodbyes”
― Masuji Ibuse

34 likes

#22

“Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.”
― George Steiner

tags: books

209 likes

#23

“I am interested in disgust.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

24 likes

#24

“El espíritu de superación existe allá donde hay modelos a seguir, o sea, donde hay jerarquía, o sea, donde hay deseo de dominio de uno sobre otro.”
― Cristina Morales, Lectura fácil

5 likes

#25

“Relearn astonishment.”
― Elias Canetti

855 likes

#26

“Eterno enamorado, nada exige. Pero su amor lo penetra todo lentamente.”
― María Zambrano

tags: amor

2 likes

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