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“every day I read and every day I realise that I have everything left to read. And every once in a while I reread, even though I only reread that which deserves the privilege of rereading.”
― Jaume Cabré, Confessions

“A veces me asusta el poder del arte y del estudio del arte. A veces no entiendo por qué la humanidad se relaciona a porrazos habiendo, como hay, tantas cosas por hacer.”
― Jaume Cabré, Jo confesso

“Once you’ve had a taste of artistic beauty, your life changes. Once you’ve heard the Monteverdi choir sing, your life changes. Once you’ve seen a Vermeer up close, your life changes; once you’ve read Proust, you are never the same again. What I don’t know is why.”
― Jaume Cabré, Confessions

“we try to survive the chaos with art’s order.”
― Jaume Cabré, Confessions

“A verdadeira arte provem da tristeza, a felicidade não é criativa.”
― Jaume Cabré, Jo confesso

“Killing in the name of God or in the name of the future is the same thing. When the justification is ideological, empathy and compassion vanish. One kills coldly, without one’s conscience being affected. Like the gratuitous crime of a psychopath.”
― Jaume Cabré, Confessions

“These pages are the day-to-day record of something written chaotically, in many tears mixed with a little ink.”
― Jaume Cabré, Confessions

“More than things, what was important was the excitement we projected into them. That is what makes us people.”
― Jaume Cabré