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• Volvería a llamar, al menos para la literatura, a este mundo de sombras que estamos perdiendo. En la mansión llamada literatura tendría los aleros profundos y las paredes oscuras, haría retroceder a las sombras las cosas que se manifiestan con demasiada claridad, despojaría de la decoración inútil. No pido que esto se haga en todas partes, pero tal vez se nos permita al menos una mansión donde podamos apagar las luces eléctricas y ver cómo es sin ellas.

  Junichiro Tanizaki

  Wall, Dark, Light

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• Sólo una persona entre mil conoce el truco de vivir realmente el presente. La mayoría de nosotros pasamos cincuenta y nueve minutos por hora viviendo en el pasado, lamentándonos por las alegrías perdidas o avergonzándonos por las cosas mal hechas (ambas cosas totalmente inútiles y debilitantes) o en un futuro que anhelamos o tememos. . . . Sólo hay un minuto en el que estás vivo, este minuto, aquí y ahora. La única manera de vivir es aceptar cada minuto como un milagro irrepetible. Que es exactamente lo que es: un milagro irrepetible.

  Tormenta Jameson

  Regret, Past, Long

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• It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Use, Arguing, Reason

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• Most animal experimentation is useless.

  Henry Heimlich

  Animal, Cruelty, Experimentation

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• Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression.

  Daniele Bolelli

  Oppression, Openness

  Daniele Bolelli (2013). “Create Your Own Religion: A How-To Book without Instructions”, p.108, Red Wheel Weiser

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• Every discoverer of a new truth, or inventor of the method which evolves it, makes a dozen, perhaps fifty, useless combinations, experiments, or trials for one successful one. In the realm of electricity or of mechanics there is no objection to this. But when such rejected failures involve a torture of animals, sometimes fearful in its character, there is a distinct objection to it.

  Henry Jacob Bigelow

  Failure, Character, Successful

  "Surgical Anaesthesia: Addresses and Other Papers". Pp. 369-370. Book by Henry Jacob Bigelow, 1894.

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• Lleva en su pata derecha la pala que excava hasta la verdad bajo las apariencias, corta las raíces de los apegos inútiles y arroja arena húmeda sobre los fuegos de la codicia y la guerra; Su pata izquierda en el Mudra de la Muestra de Camaradería - indicando que todas las criaturas tienen pleno derecho a vivir hasta sus límites y que ciervos, conejos, ardillas listadas, serpientes, dientes de león y lagartos crecen en el reino del Dharma.

  Gary Snyder

  Guerra, Corte, Animal

  Gary Snyder (2009). "Back on the Fire: Essays", p.125, Contrapunto

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• If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil, make for yourself a shield that will resist everything, for if you yield to your weaker nature you will not grow, you will dry up like a dead plant, and you will bear neither fruit nor flowers.

  Alfred de Musset

  Flower, Eye, Heart

  "Narration; The confession of a child of the century".

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• The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with officers, and opening our doors to their intrusions, had already begun that process of domiciliary vexation which, once entered, is scarcely to be restrained from reaching successively every article of produce and property.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Doors, Land, Office

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States "Los escritos de Thomas Jefferson"

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• Todas las grandes ideas, sin acción, se vuelven rancias e inútiles. La clave para convertir los sueños en realidad es la acción. Las personas que tienen grandes ideas son una moneda de diez centavos por docena. Las personas que actúan sobre la base de sus sueños e ideas son unos pocos elegidos, pero son los que obtienen la riqueza, la abundancia y la sabiduría disponibles. Alguien actuará hoy. Que seas tú.

  Jim Rohn

  Dream, Reality, Keys

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• Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Grace, Would Be

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• Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up magnificently-and a good half of it is palpably useless.

  H. L. Mencken

  Beautiful, Half, Gothic

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• To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Crush, Work, Character

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• A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Ignorance, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

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• The profession of the law of which he [a judge] is a part is charged with the articulation and final incidence of the successive efforts towards justice; it must feel the circulation of the communal blood or it will wither and drop off, a useless member.

  Learned Hand

  Blood, Law, Justice

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• La felicidad seca es como el pan seco. Comemos, pero no cenamos. Deseo lo superfluo, lo inútil, lo extravagante, lo excesivo, lo que no sirve para nada.

  Victor Hugo

  Wish, Extravagance, Dry

  Victor Hugo (1863). "Los miserables"

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• Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic. Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones. Do not attempt sexual relations, as years of TV radiation have left your genitals withered and useless.

  Matt Groening

  Years, Temptation, Television

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• A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.

  Walter Lippmann

  Sleep, Men, Cradle

  Walter Lippmann (1914). "Un prefacio a la política"

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• Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.

  George Eliot

  Women, Sorrow, Would Be

  'Felix Holt' (1866) ch. 2

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• All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Handicapped

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1989). "Críticas, reflexiones y máximas de Goethe", Richard West

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• Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

  Oscar Wilde

  Law, Resolution, Interfere

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.253, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our gross public to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth!

  Edith Wharton

  Thinking, Class, America

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• First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce) worse than useless.

  Lewis Carroll

  Hate, Believe, Events

  Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). "Las cartas de Lewis Carroll", Oxford University Press, EE.UU.

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• To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Beautiful, Witty, Money

  Jan Austell, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder (1971). "La obra como teatro"

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• Why then should women be denied the benefits of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God almighty would never have given them capacities.

  Daniel Defoe

  Sex, Women, Understanding

  An Essay upon Projects "Of Academies: An Academy forWomen" (1697)

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