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…So I was reading Phantom of the opera… I don’t know whether to despise Erik or pity him. Yes I know he killed people and kidnapped others… but-but he had a tough life… he just wanted to be normal. In the end, all he craved was normalcy and the love he’d never received.

That book was a tragedy and no one can convince me otherwise.

“Your soul is a beautiful thing, child,” replied the man’s voice, “and I thank you. No emperor ever received so fair a gift. The angels wept tonight.” Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

I think this quote is so beautiful

Hey, Dorian, want to go to the art gallery and look at some portraits of- oh my- um… Never mind…

“A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.”

– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

 “La naranja mecánica”, de Anthony Burgess

“La naranja mecánica”, de Anthony Burgess


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 “Guerra y paz”, de León Tolstói

“Guerra y paz”, de León Tolstói


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“Ahora sí que conocía la mezquindad de las pasiones que el arte exageraba.”

“ Si una joven tiene belle­za, nacimiento, educación, ingenio, sentido, modales, modestia y todo ello en forma extremada, pero no tiene dinero, no es na­die y es igual que si lo necesitara todo, porque el dinero es lo único que recomienda ahora a una mujer. Los hombres tienen todo el juego en su mano.”

  • Libro:Moll Flanders-Daniel Defoe
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