Quotes by Argentinian Authors - Page 8

But, who is Death? A figure that harrows and wastes wherever and however it pleases. This is also a possible description of the Countess Bathory. Never did anyone wish so hard not to grow old; I mean, to die. That is why, perhaps, she acted and played the role of Death. Because, how can Death possibly die?
Alejandra Pizarnik
Y allá en el fondo está la muerte si no corremos y llegamos antes y comprendemos que ya no importa.
Julio Cortázar
Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality, of coldness, of fear; then she wished that it were already the next day. Immediately afterwards she realized that that wish was futile because the death of her father was the only thing that had happened in the world, and it would go on happening endlessly.
Jorge Luis Borges
I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.
Alberto Manguel
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.", The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]
Jorge Luis Borges
If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.
Alberto Manguel
As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.
Alberto Manguel
There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I can, even if it's just by signing an autograph. A child's smile is worth more than all the money in the world.
Lionel Messi
Happiness means knowing how to limit some needs which only diminish us, and being open to the many different possibilities which life can offer.
Pope Francis
Many people are so poor that the only thing they have is money. Cultivate your spiritual growth.
Rodolfo Costa
Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life. Change what you do not want. Change what makes you unhappy.
Rodolfo Costa
Take responsibility for your own happiness, do not expect people or things to bring you happiness, or you could be disappointed.
Rodolfo Costa
Learn to love someone when they least deserve it, because that is when they need your love most.
Rodolfo Costa
Erase from your vocabulary the word “someday.” Do not save things for “special occasions.” Take into account the fact that every day is special. Every day is a gift that we must appreciate and be thankful for. Wear your attractive clothes, wear your nice perfume, use your fine silverware and dishes, and drink from your expensive crystal glasses … just because. Live every day to the fullest and savor every minute of it.
Rodolfo Costa
The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall.
Ernesto Che Guevara
If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't put a verb after!
Bill Gaede
A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.
Bill Gaede
Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.
Bill Gaede
Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species.
Bill Gaede
The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.
Bill Gaede
Define the word exist, and you'll know whether God exists.
Bill Gaede
There are objects made up of two sense elements, one visual, the other auditory—the colour of a sunrise and the distant call of a bird. Other objects are made up of many elements—the sun, the water against the swimmer's chest, the vague quivering pink which one sees when the eyes are closed, the feeling of being swept away by a river or by sleep. These second degree objects can be combined with others; using certain abbreviations, the process is practically an infinite one. There are famous poems made up of one enormous word, a word which in truth forms a poetic object, the creation of the writer. The fact that no one believes that nouns refer to an actual reality means, paradoxically enough, that there is no limit to the numbers of them.
Jorge Luis Borges
Let not the rash marble riskgarrulous breaches of oblivion's omnipotence,in many words recallingname, renown, events, birthplace.All those glass jewels are best left in the dark.Let not the marble say what men do not.The essentials of the dead man's life--the trembling hope,the implacable miracle of pain, the wonder of sensual delight--will abide forever.Blindly the uncertain soul asks to continuewhen it is the lives of others that will make that happen,as you yourself are the mirror and imageof those who did not live as long as youand others will be (and are) your immortality on earth.
Jorge Luis Borges
Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it.
Jorge Luis Borges
We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
Ernesto Che Guevara
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
Alberto Manguel
We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.
Julio Cortázar
Lo esperado no sucede. Es lo inesperado lo que acontece.
Ernesto Sabato
To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.
Carlos María Domínguez
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Ernesto Che Guevara
Creo que todos tenemos un poco de esa bella locura que nos mantiene andando cuando todo alrededor es tan insanamente cuerdo.
Julio Cortázar
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
Jorge Luis Borges
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Antonio Porchia
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
Jorge Luis Borges
I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received.
Antonio Porchia
Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?
Ernesto Che Guevara
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
Jorge Luis Borges
Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.
Julio Cortázar