Top 32 Felix J Palma Quotes
#1. The saddest thing in the world is to see a man die wearing the forlorn expression of someone who has failed to fulfill his dreams.
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#2. Man needed to dream. Yes, he needed to believe in illusions, to aspire to something more than the miserable, hostile life that suffocated him.
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#3. From then on, he was convinced that the universe dazzled mankind with volcanic eruptions, but had its own secret way of communicating with the select few, people like Andrew who looked at reality as though it were a strip of wallpaper covering up something else.
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#4. The passage of time, which transformed the volatile present into that finished, unalterable painting called the past, a canvas man always executed blindly, with erratic brushstrokes that only made sense when one stepped far enough away from it to be able to admire it as a whole. -pg. 19
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#5. There are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.
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#6. He had forgotten that his paradise was surrounded by hell itself.
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#7. Striving to achieve a dream is never a waste of time.
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#8. True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge
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#10. It was the gaze of a person who yearns for something and refuses to believe it will never be hers, because hope is the only thing she has left.
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#11. Intelligence could not thrive where there was no change and no necessity for change.
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#12. Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore.
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#13. As if he had turned into one of those sarcophagi lined with bristling nails. He wanted to flee himself, unshackle himself from the excruciating substance he was made of, but he was trapped inside the martyred flesh.
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#14. Ultimately it was man's limited senses which established the boundaries of the world.
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#15. The paths that we choose don't always take us where we want to go. Sometimes they take us where we need to go.
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#16. Perhaps love is a sentiment shared by other species in the universe. But the love that a human being can generate is exclusively his own and will die with him. After that, the universe, perhpas despite its unfathomable vastness, its apparent infinity, will no longer be complete.
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#18. While finding true love was one of the most splendid things that could happen to you in life, finding a friend was equally splendid.
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#19. I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books ... True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence, George. And only a chosen few know what that history is.
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#20. Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?
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#21. Time could only be seen in the falling leaves, a wound that healed, a woodworm's tunneling, rust that spread, and hearts that grew weary. Without anyone to discern it, time was nothing, nothing at all.
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#22. It is a question of will, Mr. Wells," he said, striving to imbue his slurred voice with a tone of authority. "That's all.
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#24. Merrick belonged to that class of reader who was able to forget with amazing ease the hand moving the characters behind the scenes of the novel.
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#25. If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at all. p. 516
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#26. I don't think traveling back in time on an empty stomach is a good idea.
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#27. The most terrifying thing is sometimes not what we see, but rather what we are forced to imagine.
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#28. I would like you to have it, Mr. Wells" he said, presenting him with the basket,"to remind you that everything is a question of wills
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#29. Writers perform an extremely important role: they make others dream, those who are unable to dream for themselves. And everyone needs to dream. Could there be any more important job in life than that?
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#30. We are the authors of our own fate-we write it each day with every one of our actions.
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#31. There is little more I can add short of dissecting the man, or going into intimate details such as the modest proportions and slight southeasterly curvature of his manhood.
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#32. But there are stories that cannot begin at their beginning, and perhaps this is one of them.
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