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"Life is really very simple. In each moment, we have the opportunity to choose between saying "yes or "no, to listen to our intuition, to listen to our true inner voice, the Existential voice within ourselves. When we say "yes, we have contact with Existence and we receive nourishment, love, joy, support and inspiration. When we say "no, we create a separation from life and begin to create dreams and expectations of how it should be. We begin to live in the memories of the past and in the fantasies of the future " as if any other time than here and now really could make us happy and satisfied."

"Either to die the death or to abjureFor ever the society of men.Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires;Know of your youth, examine well your blood,Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice,You can endure the livery of a nun,For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd,To live a barren sister all your life,Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood,To undergo such maiden pilgrimage;But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd,Than that which withering on the virgin thornGrows, lives and dies in single blessedness."

"Men and women alike have convinced themselves of a dragging belief: that somehow women are incomplete without having children."

"Compromise is a choice. As is the defence of one's self."

"Every choice is limited. That's life."

"To be or not to be. Choose be."
Explore more quotes by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

"Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story."

"If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror."

"I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England."

"For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page."

"I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself."

"I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me."
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