Ana Castro > Ana's Quotes

“Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.”
― Samuel Beckett

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.”
― Eduardo Hughes Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

“...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.”
― Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action.

(There is no reality except in action.)”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa