“Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of being unencumbered upon the land.”

— Tom Robbins , Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)

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Ramón Valdés (1923–1988) Mexican actor

cosa bonita, cosa bien hecha, cosa hermosa -Don ramon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knLYJDOnma4
As Don Ramón

“It is my soul that calls upon my name;
How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night,
like softest music to attending ears!
-Romeo”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“The music was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul.”

James Macpherson (1736–1796) Scottish writer, poet, translator, and politician

"The Death of Cuthullin"
The Poems of Ossian

“He was a poor weak human being like themselves, a human soul, weak and helpless in suffering, shivering in the toils of the eternal struggle of the human soul with pain.”

Liam O'Flaherty book The Informer

The Informer (1925; London: New English Library, 1971) p. 139

“Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow,
A herb most bruised is woman.”

Euripidés Medea

Source: Medea (431 BC), Lines 230–231 in Gilbert Murray's translation ( p. 15 https://archive.org/stream/medeatranslatedi00euriuoft#page/15/mode/1up)

“Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.”

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer

Monday 20 April 1925
A Moment's Liberty (1990)

“We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.”

James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright

Quoted in New York Times (21 February 1960).
Letters and interviews

“What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.”

Clarice Lispector book The Passion According to G.H.

Source: The Passion According to G.H.

“Human beings have hope. Not matter how desperate things are, they convince themselves that they can change things for the better."

- John Gregory (Clash of the Demons)”

Joseph Delaney book The Spook's Sacrifice

Source: The Spook's Sacrifice

“Women tell men things that men are not very likely to find out for themselves.”

Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist

"Robertson Davies: Beyond the Visible World".
Conversations with Robertson Davies (1989)

“Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of being unencumbered upon the land.”

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