"Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?"

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Source : Ernesto Sabato (2011). “The Tunnel”, p.48, Penguin UK

Ernesto Sabato

#Stars Quotes #Desert Quotes #Scream Quotes

“I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or Marxismâ€¦The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by such religious and political and racial fanatics, from the persecutions of the Inquisition on down to Communist purges and Nazi genocide.”
“Broadly speaking, most people lived their lives in a kind of unwilling conformity. The thing was that they were offered, as time went by, various kinds of freedom, most of which were sort of dummy freedoms somehow.”
“I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.”
“A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.”
“There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this.”
“King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.”
“Basically, you can live your life in one of two ways. You can let your brain run you the way it has in the past. You can let it flash any picture or sound or feeling, and you can respond automatically on cue, like a Pavlovian dog respâ€Žonding to a bell. Or you can choose to consciously run your brain yourself. You can implant the cues you want. You can take bad experiences and sap them of their strength and power. You can represent them to yourself in a way that no longer overpowers you, a way that "cuts them down" to a size where you know you can effectively handle things.”
“Our motto, which we are not afraid to repeat year after year, is 'Death to America'!”

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