Uno es feliz hasta que la caga de cierta forma, luego no hay manera de recuperar eso que uno era antes

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

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Lo importante en nuestra sociedad no es lo que pasa, sino quién cuenta lo que pasa.

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Mots clés communication powerful

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So you fell out of the sky, too?" the Little Prince asked the pilot who tells the story, and I thought yes, I'd fallen out of the sky, too, but there was no possible testimony of my fall, there was no black box that anybody could consult, nor was there any black box of Ricardo Laverde's fall, human lives don't have these technological luxuries to fall back on.

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

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Now that so many years have passed, now that I remember with the benefit of an understanding I didn't then have, I think of that conversation and it seems implausible that its importance didn't hit me in the face. (And I tell myself at the same time that we're terrible judges of the present moment, maybe because the present doesn't actually exist: all is memory, this sentence that I just wrote is already a memory, this word is a memory that you, reader, just read).

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

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In the darkness of the bedroom I thought of that, although thinking in the darkness is not advisable: things seem bigger or more serious in the darkness, illnesses more destructive, the presence of evil closer, indifference more intense, solitude more profound.

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

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There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Mots clés past regret

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