Books Burn Badly Quotes

“The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body.”
― Manuel Rivas, Books Burn Badly

“A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.”
― Manuel Rivas, Books Burn Badly

“Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.”
― Manuel Rivas, Books Burn Badly

“A human's best training is with his shadow. You have to fight with your shadow.”
― Manuel Rivas, Books Burn Badly

“See what's inside a drop of water. The whole seed of the universe. Come, come. See what's inside a drop of blood. The composition of life. It's all there. Hate as well. We approach the mystery of life, but it's impossible to understand the mystery of hate. The kind of hate that causes people not only to kill, but to want to erase you from the census of births. I have to concentrate on that mystery. Read everything there is. It has to be in a drop of blood. It has to have its chemistry.”
― Manuel Rivas, Books Burn Badly

“Books as defendants under arrest, against the wall. With their backs to the people. In a line, squeezed tight, unable to move, in mute silence. They were the lucky ones. Days, months, years will go by, and the arrested books will gradually disappear. Book by book, the dismantling of the library, what’s not burnt in the Palace of Justice. And the same thing will happen to the man’s entire credentials. Everything will be the object of pillaging.”
― Manuel Rivas, Books Burn Badly

“Incierto es, en verdad, lo porvenir. ¿Quién sabe lo que va a pasar? Pero incierto es también lo pretérito, ¿quién sabe lo que ha pasado? ANTONIO MACHADO Juan de Mairena”
― Manuel Rivas, Los libros arden mal

“Incierto es, en verdad, lo porvenir. ¿Quién sabe lo que va a pasar? Pero incierto es también lo pretérito, ¿quién sabe lo que ha pasado?   ANTONIO MACHADO Juan de Mairena”
― Manuel Rivas, Los libros arden mal