Ana Lucía Salazar
@analuciasv
Ana Lucía Salazar
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For an engineer or an advertising professional to be creative was not simply to be productive, though it was that, but also to model oneself not on the machine but on the artist or poet. It was to pursue work with an intrinsic motivation, a passion for the act of creation. It was to be more human. Though this didn’t necessarily change anything
... See moreSamuel W. Franklin • The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History
cleo abram 1
Perhaps, as Borges concludes in his story, it is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. “To think,” Borges writes, “is to forget.”
Joshua Foer • Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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AUTOBIOGRAFÍA
Como el náufrago metódico que contase las olas
que faltan para morir,
y las contase, y las volviese a contar, para evitar
errores, hasta la última,
hasta aquella que tiene la estatura de un niño
y le besa y le cubre la frente,
así he vivido yo con una vaga prudencia de
caballo de cartón en el baño,
sabiendo que jamás me he equivocado en nada,
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cleo abram 5.2