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“Toda idea, al fin y al cabo, es una idea demencial.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Correction

“We want everything, we want to be everything. We want to experience all the joys of good fortune and the full depths of suffering. We want the excitement of action and the calm of observation. We want the silence of the desert as well as the noise of the forum. Simultaneously we want to be the hermit´s thought and the voice of the people; we want to be both melody and harmony. Simultaneously! How could this be possible?”
― Hjalmar Söderberg, Doctor Glas

“To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“Comprendió --¡ahora, qué bien!-- el infierno, esa privación de amor adonde conduce la adoración idolátrica de la miseria de uno mismo, e incluso ese padecimiento físico del infierno.”
― Carmen Laforet, La mujer nueva