Juan Ocampo > Juan's Quotes

“I applaud the courage of he who accepts each and every one of the laws of a game he did not invent and was not asked if he wanted to play”
― Juan Carlos Onetti, A Brief Life

“La literatura es mentir bien la verdad”
― Juan Carlos Onetti

“Am I sure? Only as sure as I am that the reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can ever be the whole truth.”
― Arthur Schnitzler, Dream Story

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“-Y ahora qué?
-No sé... ¿Nos casamos?”
― Fernando Molano Vargas, Un beso de Dick

“I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everything that had once existed left its traces, and people lived on memories just as they now live on the ability to forget quickly and emphatically.”
― Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March

“El cultivo de lo superfluo y de lo que no supone beneficio puede de todos modos ayudarnos a resistir, a mantener viva la esperanza, a entrever el rayo de la luz que nos permitirá recorrer un camino decoroso.”
― Nuccio Ordine, La utilidad de lo inútil: Manifiesto

“Juventud divino tesoro
Ya te vas para no volver
Quando quiero llorar no lloro
Y a veces lloro sin querer”
― Ruben Dario

“A batallas de amor, campos de plumas”
― Luis de Gongora y Argote

“In love it does not matter what you say, but what you feel. In poetry it does not matter what you feel, but what you say.”
― Luis de Góngora

“Si he de vivir que sea
sin timón y en el delirio”
― Mario Santiago Papasquiaro

“La lluvia es cierta / los ahogados su coro.”
― Mario Santiago Papasquiaro, Aullido de cisne

“Nature always wins. It has never lost, and I pray it never will.”
― Mike Ma , Harassment Architecture

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“The mind I love must have wild places.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.”
― Samuel Johnson, Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II

“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
― André Breton, What Is Surrealism?: Selected Writings

“Viajar, perder ciudades, perderlos todos.”
― Enrique Vila-Matas, Recuerdos inventados: Primera antología personal

“Lo que hace soportable la vida es la idea de que podemos elegir cuándo escapar.”
― Enrique Vila-Matas, Suicidios ejemplares

“La literatura me ha permitido siempre comprender la vida. Pero precisamente por eso me deja fuera de ella.”
― Enrique Vila-Matas, Montano's Malady

“It passes, but it does not pass away.”
― Laszlo Krasznahorkai

“Get it into your thick head that jokes are just like life. Things that begin badly, end badly. Everything's fine in the middle, it's the end you need to worry about.”
― László Krasznahorkai, Satantango

“A poem is never finished; it is only abandoned.”
― W. Maxwell Prince, One Week in the Library

“One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.”
― Ivo Andric

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

“We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.”
― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories

“I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark.”
― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories

“I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.”
― Amy Hempel

“Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.”
― Hugh Hefner