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• Retrasa la edad, fortalece la juventud, ayuda a la digestión, abandona la melancolía, alivia el corazón, ilumina la mente, acelera los espíritus, mantiene y preserva la cabeza de girar, los ojos de deslumbrar, la lengua de cecear, la boca de carraspear, los dientes de castañear y la garganta de traquetear; Evita que el estómago vacile, que el corazón se hinche, que las manos tiemblen, que los tendones se encojan, que las venas se desmoronen, que los huesos duelan y que la médula se empape.

  Joseph Lyons

  Corazón, Vino, Ojo

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• We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these, the legendary city of Samarkand, whose crumbling palaces and mosques still welcome travelers on the Silk road. Weary of cities? Then we’ll take to the wilds. To the islands of Hawaii and the mountains of Japan, to forests where Civil War dead still lie, and stretches of sea no mariner ever crossed. They all have their poetry: the glittering cities and the ruined, the watery wastes and the dusty; I want to show you them all. I want to show you everything.

  Clive Barker

  New York, War, Lying

  "Galilee". Book by Clive Barker, February 3, 1999.

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• They had picked up Julie's scent hit wolfsbane lost her and found her trail again at the crumbling Highway 23 except it was two hours old and mixed with horse scents. She was hitchhiking. Great. Awesome. At least she always carried a knife with her. When I relayed this to Curran he shrugged and said, "If she kills anybody we'll make it go away.

  Ilona Andrews

  Horse, Knives, Two

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.88, Penguin

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• They were viewed very much like castles, I suppose: as crumbling, obsolete relics, with no real modern function other than as tourist attractions. But when the skies darkened and the nation called, both reawoke to the meaning of their existence. One shielded our bodies, the other, our souls.

  Max Brooks

  Real, Sky, Soul

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.194, Broadway Books

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• There are few ways in which good people do more harm to those who take them seriously than to defend the gospel with arguments that won't hold water. Many of the difficulties encountered by young people going to college would be avoided if parents and teachers were more careful to distinguish between what they know to be true and what they think may be true. Impetuous youth, upon finding the authority it trusts crumbling, even on unimportant details, is apt to lump everything together and throw the baby out with the bath.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Baby, Teacher, College

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• I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Wall, Winter, Past

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.14, Penguin

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• This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Moving, Men, Garden

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Book House (2016). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.393, Book House

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• El invierno se rompió, finalmente, una larga ceniza desmenuzándose en el extremo de un cigarrillo, quemado, débil y vacío.

  Gregory Galloway

  Winter, Long, Ashes

  Gregory Galloway (2015). “As Simple as Snow”, p.202, Penguin

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• Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Mind, Plums, Puff

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• Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists...but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  New Orleans, Ohio, Cities

  "Albino zombie snakes and voodoo potions: the legacy of Lafcadio Hearn, raconteur extraordinaire" by Jim Gabour, www.theguardian.com. March 05, 2015.

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• None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how they stare at me, wondering, all wondering, at my secret wellspring of wisdom...' Let's kill him,' Crokus muttered, 'if only to put him out of our misery.

  Steven Erikson

  Confusion, Secret, Misery

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• It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it

  Julie Orringer

  Like Love, Done, Complicated

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• a connotation of infinity sharpens the temporal splendor of this night when souls which have forgot frivolity in lowliness,noting the fatal flight of worlds whereto this earth’s a hurled dream down eager avenues of lifelessness consider for how much themselves shall gleam, in the poised radiance of perpetualness. When what’s in velvet beyond doomed thought is like a woman amorous to be known; and man,whose here is alway worse than naught, feels the tremendous yonder for his own— on such a night the sea through her blind miles of crumbling silence seriously smiles

  e. e. cummings

  Dream, Night, Men

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• Invertir [en los niños] no es un lujo nacional ni una opción nacional. Es una necesidad nacional. Si los cimientos de tu casa se desmoronan, no dices que no puedes permitirte arreglarlos mientras construyes vallas astronómicamente caras para protegerla de los enemigos exteriores. La cuestión no es si vamos a pagar, sino si vamos a pagar ahora, por adelantado, o si vamos a pagar mucho más después.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Luxury, Issues

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• Me opongo a la intervención militar estadounidense en Irak. Creo que no deberíamos enviar tropas ni realizar ataques aéreos: la participación militar de nuestra nación debe terminar. Estados Unidos ya ha gastado miles de millones de dólares en Irak mientras nuestra nación ha soportado una infraestructura en ruinas, recortes en nuestros programas sociales, falta de inversión en formación y creación de empleo y, tristemente, una falta de atención a nuestros veteranos. Concentremos nuestros recursos en casa. Más de 4.000 hombres y mujeres han sacrificado sus vidas por Irak. Ya es suficiente.

  Janice Hahn

  Empleo, Militar, Creer

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• I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.

  Yoko Ono

  Being Thankful, Groups, Way

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• Toda sociedad decente debe generar un sentimiento de comunidad. La comunidad compensa
  la soledad. Proporciona a las personas un sentido de pertenencia vitalmente necesario. Sin embargo
  las instituciones de las que depende la comunidad se están desmoronando en todas las
  tecnosociedades. El resultado es una plaga de soledad que se extiende.

  Alvin Toffler

  Soledad, Estar Solo, Gente

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• ¿Quién sabe qué infraestructuras en ruinas yacen bajo nuestros hijos dormidos? En realidad, mucha gente lo sabe: pagan a topógrafos para que echen un vistazo.

  Christine Pelosi

  Niños, Mentir, Dormir

  "Prioridades mortales: Why Did PG&E Spend Millions on Politics, Instead of Pipelines?" por Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. 12 de septiembre de 2010.

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• Sin título" es una máquina del tiempo capaz de transportarte a 1992, un momento de tensión en el que el mundo del arte se desmoronaba, el dinero escaseaba y artistas como Tiravanija se encontraban en la fase inicial de combinar happenings, performance, John Cage, Joseph Beuys y el espíritu "hazlo tú mismo" del punk. Mientras tanto, nacía un nuevo mundo artístico.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Ethos, Machines

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• I'm not trying to imply I can keep up this silent, isolated facade all the time. Sometimes the wall I've erected around me comes crumbling down. It doesn't happen very often, but sometimes, before I even realize what's going on, there I am--naked and defenseless and totally confused. At times like that I always feel an omen calling out to me, like a dark, omnipresent pool of water. ~page 10

  Haruki Murakami

  Wall, Confused, Dark

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• The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.

  Don DeLillo

  Dream, Thinking, Energy

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.114, Pan Macmillan

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• Between the probable and proved there yawns A gap. Afraid to jump, we stand absurd, Then see behind us sink the ground and, worse, Our very standpoint crumbling. Desperate dawns Our only hope: to leap into the Word That opens up the shuttered universe.

  Sheldon Vanauken

  Faith, Inspiration, Dawn

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• Incluso esta nación (los EE.UU.) estará a punto de desmoronarse en pedazos y caer al suelo, y cuando la Constitución esté al borde de la ruina, este pueblo será el bastón en el que se apoyará la nación, y llevará la Constitución lejos del borde mismo de la destrucción.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Freedom, People, Tumbling

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• Both could feel the relationship crumbling to pieces beneath the weight of everything that Gavin refused to say.

  J. K. Rowling

  Pieces, Weight, Feels

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.246, Hachette UK

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• When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyle atop some crumbling building, spring to life a resuscitated angel.

  Saúl Williams

  Spring, Angel, Breathing

  Saul Williams (2009). “, said the shotgun to the head.”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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