All Quotes
2989 quotes in total
“I have a feeling that my boat has struck, down there in the depths, against a great thing. And nothing happens! Nothing … Silence … Waves.”
“A NOTE TO THOSE GROWNUPS WHO MIGHT READ THIS BOOK TO CHILDREN”
“Los hombres creen voluntariamente lo que desean que sea verdad.”
“Los cobardes mueren muchas veces antes de su muerte; los valientes nunca prueban la muerte sino una vez.”
“La experiencia es la maestra de todas las cosas.”
“La fortuna favorece a los audaces.”
“Nadie es tan valiente que no se asuste ante lo inesperado.”
“El hombre sabio es el que se adelanta a los acontecimientos.”
“La vida es demasiado corta para aprender todo de la experiencia.”
“' Andábamos sin buscarnos pero sabiendo que andábamos para encontrarnos.' Translation: We went around without looking for each other, but knowing we went around to find each other.”
“I touch your mouth, I touch the edge of your mouth with my finger, I am drawing it as if it were something my hand was sketching, as if for the first time your mouth opened a little, and all I have to do is close my eyes to erase it and start all over again, every time I can make the mouth I want appear, the mouth which my hand chooses and sketches on your face, and which by some chance that I do not seek to understand coincides exactly with your mouth which smiles beneath the one my hand is sketching on you.”
“Nada está perdido si se tiene el valor de proclamar que todo está perdido y hay que empezar de nuevo. Translation: Nothing is lost if one has the courage to proclaim that all is lost and we must begin anew.”
“Hair loss and retrieval”
“Translation: LOVE 77”
“The snail lives the way I like to live; he carries his own home with him.”
“The only true exile is the writer who lives in his own country.”
“Reflections on the Fantastic”
“Julio was never a regional writer. You could see he was Argentinian, but he was more like Borges , more universal from the very beginning. He didn’t jump from the regionalism, he wrote universally all the time...It’s not that Julio was not very Argentinian, he was very Argentinian but his works were never as local. Claribel Alegría Interview with Bomb Magazine”
“I belong to the first generation of Latin American writers brought up reading other Latin American writers. Before my time the work of Latin American writers was not well distributed, even on our continent. In Chile it was very hard to read other writers from Latin America. My greatest influences have been all the great writers of the Latin American Boom in literature: García Márquez, Vargas Llosa, Cortázar, Borges, Paz, Rulfo, Amado, etc. Isabel Allende Interview”
“Veni, vidi, vici.”
“Alea iacta est.”
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”
“Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.”
“It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.”
“The die is cast.”
“Men willingly believe what they wish to be true.”
“Experience is the teacher of all things.”
“Thus heaven I’ve forfeited, I know it full well. My soul, once true to God , is chosen for hell . “The Pale Maiden” (1837) ballad”
“With disdain I will throw my gauntlet”
“Les Cahiers d'études de Karl Marx (1840”