Jorge Luis BORGES: "Nadie puede leer dos mil libros. Yo no habré pasado de una media docena. Además no importa leer, sino releer."

martes, 22 de junio de 2010

TOLKIEN: Death and life

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life.”
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"Many of you have got death as the reward of your trust in her."
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"There are locked doors and closed windows in your mind, and dark rooms behind them."
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"This is a bitter end to our hope and to all our toil!"
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"The grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise."

J.R.R. TOLKIEN, The Lord of the Rings



lunes, 7 de junio de 2010

BLOOM: El rabí Tarfón

"No es necesario que acabéis el trabajo, pero ninguno de vosotros es libre de abandonarlo."


Citado en: Harold BLOOM, Cómo leer y por qué, Anagrama, Barcelona, 2007.