Author: Eloy Urroz

Cites

• Friedrich Hölderlin (1)
  • IN: Friction (2007) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: So, dare it! Your inheritance, whay you've earned and learned, The narratives of all your father's voices teaching you, All law and custom, names of all the ancient gods, Forget these things courageously; like newborn babes Your eyes will open to the godliness of nature...
    FROM: The Death of Empedocles, (1846), Book, Germany
• Luis Cernuda (1)
  • IN: The Family Interrupted (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Everything will come down with you, like tinsel streamers once the party's over, even the shadow of a few days that lingered a while in music, and no one else will be able to evoke for the world what ends in the world with you. Pitiful? For you, maybe. But you're nothing more than one card in the game, and it, though it hurts to acknowledge it, is not played by you or for you, but with you and for an instant.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], Spain
• Karl Popper (1)
  • IN: The Family Interrupted (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life... A concrete history of mankind, if there were any, would have to be the history of all men. It would have to be the history of all human hopes, struggles, and sufferings. For there is no one man more important than any other. Clearly, this concrete history cannot be written. We must make abstractions, we must neglect, select. But with this we arrive at the many histories...
    FROM: The Open Society and Its Enemies, (1945), Book, Austria
• Tolstoy (1)
  • IN: The Family Interrupted (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: "I've done with it all. It's time I was dead." "Well, that's a good one! said Shtcherbatsky, laughing: "why, I'm only just getting ready to being." "Yes, I thought the same not long ago, but now I know I shall soon be dead."
    FROM: Anna Karenina, (1878), Novel, Russia