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21 " Whatever his reason, it can’t have been calculated. Which is why what you did was much worse: you planned to humiliate him. It was deliberate. Now listen to me, Buddy: there is only one unpardonable sin—deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven. That, never. "
― Truman Capote , The Complete Stories of Truman Capote
22 " (she talked to herself often, a habit of sane persons of a solitary nature "
23 " which is a venomous lie from start to finish "
24 " THE SHAPE OF THINGS (1944) "
25 " Now a sound can start a dream; the noise of one car passing in the night can drop a hundred sleepers into the deep parts of themselves. It’s funny to think of that one car racing through the dark, trailing so many dreams. Sex, a sudden change of light, a pickle, these are little keys that can open up our insides, too. But most dreams begin because there are furies inside of us that blow open all the doors. I don’t believe in Jesus Christ, but I do believe in people’s souls; and I figure it this way, baby: dreams are the mind of the soul and the secret truth about us. "
26 " Como si el cielo fuera un espejo roto por un rayo, la lluvia cayó entre ellos como una cortina de cristales astillados. "
27 " She is still a child. "
28 " of all things this was saddest, that life goes on: if one leaves one’s lover, life should stop for him, and if one disappears from the world, then the world should stop, too: and it never did. And that was the real reason for most people getting up in the morning: not because it would matter but because it wouldn’t. "
29 " had been a woman of many natures, most of them trying: "
30 " the juxtaposed spectacle made Mr. Belli, who was by profession a tax accountant and therefore equipped to enjoy irony however sadistic, smile, actually chuckle "
31 " de todas las cosas ésta era la más triste: la vida continuaba. Cuando uno deja a un amante, la vida debería detenerse; cuando uno se aleja del mundo, el mundo debería acabarse, pero eso nunca sucede. La mayoría de la gente se levanta por la mañana, no porque importe lo que haga, sino porque no importaría que no lo hiciera. "