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“Harry, si tuviera que quedarme con una sola de todas sus lecciones, ¿cuál sería? -Le devuelvo la pregunta. -Para mi sería la importancia de saber caer. -Estoy completamente de acuerdo con usted. La vida es una larga caida, Marcus. Lo más importante es saber caer.”

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La verdad sobre el caso Harry Quebert

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“Nada es lejos, nada es cerca. Nada es mucho tiempo cuando se quiere algo en la vida. Cuando el anhelo sale del corazón, se es capaz de todo. El tiempo no cuenta. La vida es camino. Lo que importa es no quitar los ojos de aquello que queremos conseguir, o de allí adonde queremos llegar. Cuando deseamos algo de todo corazón, obtendremos la fuerza necesaria para hacer todo cuanto sea bueno para lograrlo. Las cosas valiosas cuestan mucho esfuerzo.”

“Let us remind ourselves of the terminology. A theist believes in a supernatural intelligence who, in addition to his main work of creating the universe in the first place, is still around to oversee and influence the subsequent fate of his initial creation. In many theistic belief systems, the deity is intimately involved in human affairs. He answers prayers; forgives or punishes sins; intervenes in the world by performing miracles; frets about good and bad deeds, and knows when we do them (or even think about doing them). A deist, too, believes in a supernatural intelligence, but one whose activities were confined to setting up the laws that govern the universe in the first place. The deist God never intervenes thereafter, and certainly has no specific interest in human affairs. Pantheists don't believe in a supernatural God at all, but use the word God as a non-supernatural synonym for Nature, or for the Universe, or for the lawfulness that governs its workings. Deists differ from theists in that their God does not answer prayers, is not interested in sins or confessions, does not read our thoughts and does not intervene with capricious miracles. Deists differ from pantheists in that the deist God is some kind of cosmic intelligence, rather than the pantheist's metaphoric or poetic synonym for the laws of the universe. Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.”

“My Parents had early given me religious Impressions, and brought me through my Childhood piously in the Dissenting Way. But I was scarce 15 when, after doubting by turns of several Points as I found them disputed in the different Books I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself. Some Books against Deism fell into my Hands; they were said to be the Substance of Sermons preached at Boyle's Lectures. It happened that they wrought an Effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them: For the Arguments of the Deists which were quoted to be refuted, appeared to me much Stronger than the Refutations. In short I soon became a thorough Deist. [Part I, p. 45 of autobiography]”