Some Quotes

Some   Quotes

 

1.      I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane Julio Cortazar

2.     What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen them. As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. They probably say that they pick her out because-they-love-her, I think it’s just the siteoppo. Beatrice was not picked out, Juliet was not picked out. You do not pick out the rain that soaks you to a skin when you come out of a concert.   Julio Cortazar

3.     So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. Jorge Luis Borges

4.     It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

5.     Gabriel Garcia Marquez

6.     Every author that creates is a liar; literature is a lie,but from that lie, a recreation of reality is born. Therefore, recreating reality is one of the fundaments of creation. Juan Rulfo

7.      No one knows better than I do how far heaven is, but I also know all the shortcuts. The secret is to die, when you want to, and not when He proposes. Or else to force Him to take you before your time. Jun Rulfo

8.     There you'll find the place I love most in the world. The place where I grew thin from dreaming. My village, rising from the plain. Shaded with trees and leaves like a piggy bank filled with memories. You'll see why a person would want to live there forever. Dawn, morning, mid-day, night: all the same, except for the changes in the air. The air changes the color of things there. And life whirs by as quiet as a murmur...the pure murmuring of life. Juan Rulfo

9.     What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life

Octavio Paz

10.  Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life. Pablo Neruda

11.   You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.

Gabriela Mistral

12.   You are a Universe of Universes And your Soul a source of Songs. Ruben Dario

13.   The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient;
the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing:
there is no pain as great as being alive,
no burden heavier than that of conscious life. Ruben Dario

14.   I seek a form that my style cannot discover, a bud of thought that wants to be a rose.

Ruben Dario

15.   Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life that is how relative time is.

Mario Benedetti

16.   We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle. Mario Benedetii

17.   After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life. Mario Benedetii

18.  When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.   Mario Benedetti

19.   An intellectuals weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet.  Mario Benedetii

20.  Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.

Mario Vargas Llosa

21.   Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars? Ermesto Sabato

22.  The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them. Ernesto Sabato

23.  Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions. And society, without realizing it respects and even exalts him, albeit with a kind of jealousy, fear and even repulsion, since few people want to discover the horrors that lurk in the depths of their souls. This is the highest mission of great literature, and there is no other.Ernesto Sabato


With affection,
Ruben

Ruben