Another more december, another year, another closing and another balance. The month of cold (supposedly) and Christmas. And the month of the birthday of the smallest of the class. There are many great writers who were born in December, so I do a review and highlight some of the phrases that they left us for posterity.
December 3
Joseph conrad
The conquest of the land for the most part consists of nothing more than snatching it from those who have different skin or slightly flatter noses than we do.
And suddenly a great satisfaction invaded me, thinking of the great security that the sea offers compared to the tribulations that are on land, and considering my decision to adopt this life that would not present me with disturbing problems, a haloed life of an elemental moral beauty for its absolute rectitude and for the simplicity of its aims.
December 4
Rainer Maria Rilke
The true homeland of man is childhood.
Look for the depth of things; irony never manages to descend there.
Love consists of two solitudes that protect, limit and try to make each other happy.
Rafael Sanchez Ferlosio
The most suspicious of solutions is that you find them whenever you want.
Who am I to put the reins on, like my own horse, what I have to be tomorrow?
December 6
Karl Ove Knausgård
Life is simple for the heart: it beats while it can.
December 7
Lucía Etxebarría
We don't miss the people we love. What we miss is the part of our life that goes with them, that will no longer exist if they are not there.
December 8
Fifth Horacio Flaco
Every day is a little life.
There is nothing inaccessible to mortals.
The amphora always keeps the aroma of the first wine it saved.
Carmen Martin Gaite
If I have learned something in life, it is not to waste time trying to change the way of being of others.
Man is a lonely crowd of people, seeking the physical presence of others to imagine that we are all together.
The testimony of women is to see the outside from the inside. If there is a characteristic that can differentiate the discourse of women, it is that frame.
Freedom is to dream.
Do not hide yourself in age, which is how you get old. Youth is a state of mind.
December 9
John Milton
All roads lead me to hell. But if hell is me! If, however deep its abyss is, I have within me another more horrible!
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a masterful spirit, embalmed and treasured for the purpose of giving life beyond life.
To those who have turned off the eyes of the people, reproach them for their blindness.
December 10
Clarice Lispector
The future of technology threatens to destroy everything that is human in man, but technology does not reach madness, and it is in it that the human in man takes refuge.
Emily Dickinson
All we know about love is that love is all there is.
No other frigate takes us everywhere like the book.
December 11
Naguib Mahfouz
Love is a boat with two different rudders, and it has been created to be carried between two ...
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The clock of communism has stopped ticking. However, its concrete construction has not yet fallen. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
December 12
Wassily Grossman
Man's innate aspiration to freedom is invincible; it can be crushed but not annihilated.
David safier
If God had wanted people to run, He would have made them attractive in a tracksuit.
December 15
Edna o'brien
Writers actually live in the mind and in the hotels of the soul.
December 16
Jane Austen
Distance is nothing when there is a greater cause.
Arthur C. Clarke,en
I am sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just that you've been too smart to come here.
Philip K. Dick
I like it, I could look at it for a lifetime. Her breasts smile.
The basic tool for manipulating reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of the words, you can control the people who must use the words.
Rafael Alberti
You will not go, my love, and if you left, still leaving my love, you would never leave.
December 18
Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)
I always say that beauty is only a deep sin.
December 22
Alvaro Cunqueiro
Also the sea, today,
has a soul full of maturity.
-You can hear adolescence
in the glass of the air
full of fragments of vespers
and of intact dark navigations.
December 23
Juan Ramon Jimenez
What did you copy me in you,
that when it is missing in me
the image of the top,
I run to look at you?
December 24
Fernan knight
The happiness! There is no word with more meanings; each understands it in their own way.
December 26
Henry Miller
For seven years I walked day and night with only one obsession: her. If there were a Christian as faithful to God as I was to her, today we would all be Jesus Christ. Day and night he thought of her, even when he was cheating on her.
December 28
Pio Baroja
Life was a tumultuous and unconscious current where the actors performed a tragedy that he did not understand, and the men, reached a state of intellectuality, contemplated the scene with a compassionate and pious gaze.
December 30
Rudyard Kipling
There are two things bigger than everything else. The first is love and the second is war… And since we don't know where the war will end, my dear, let's talk about love…
If you fill an enviable and accurate minute of sixty seconds that will take you to heaven ... All this earth will be your domain and even more, you will be a man, my son.