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“Weather is a purely personal matter. There is no such thing as a climate that is cold or hot, good or bad, healthy or unhealthy. People take it upon themselves to create a fantasy in their imagination and call it weather. There's only one climate in the world, but the message that nature sends is interpreted according to strictly personal, non-transferable rules.”

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Book:The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
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“Life with Ilona was invariably lived on two levels, or rather in two simultaneous and parallel directions. On the one hand, your feet were always on the ground, you were always intelligently but not obsessively alert to what each day offered in response to the routine question of surviving. On the other hand, imagination and unbounded fantasy suggested a spontaneous and unexpected sequence of scenarios that were always aimed at the radical subversion of every law ever written or established. This was a permanent, organic, rigorous subversion that never permitted travel on the beaten path, the road preferred by most people, the traditional patterns that offer protection to those whom Ilona, without emphasis or pride but without any concessions either, would call "the others.”

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Book:The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
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“Insistente, reunida en alegres torrenteras, empezó a llevarse toda la miseria de nuestros días, toda la crueldad, el hambre, el delirio, la sorda y mezquina furia de los guardias. Todo se lo fue llevando la lluvia hasta que fuimos quedando sin otra cosa que nos separara del aire viajero que corre por entre las complicadas construcciones de Lecumberri, que el agua transparente que caía de lo más alto del cielo, del rincón en donde nos esperaba la libertad como una loba rabiosa que busca sus hijos.”

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Book:Diario de Lecumberri
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“Since a good part of my life has been wasted dealing with fools just like them, it's not worry I feel but weariness as I watch the approach of one more episode in the old, tired story of men who try to beat life, the smart ones who think they know it all and die with a look of surprise on their faces: at the final moment they always see the truth - they never really understood anything, never held anything in their hands. An old story, old and boring.”

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Author:Álvaro Mutis
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