Quotes by Nicaraguan Authors

Reconciliation is more beautiful than victory.

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro

Revolutionary law number one," someone said. "Capitalism has cheated us. Books are not to be bought, they are to be repossessed.""This is robbery," I said. "Let's not kid ourselves. And don't do that to me again. You scared me to death.""It's not robbery. Books are ideas. They should be able to circulate freely within society. At no price at all, or for pennies. Knowledge is universal. It belongs to all of us.

Gioconda Belli

when evoking personal recollections, patients with depersonalization often complain that memories feel as if they really didn't happen to them

Mauricio Sierra

And he was. Suddenly. From not being to being conscious that he was.

Gioconda Belli

Peace is the respect for the rights of the other person.

Gioconda Belli

LIFE IS SUBVERSIVE

Ernesto Cardenal

... You can't be with God and be neutral. / True contemplation is resistance. And poetry, / gazing at clouds is resistance I found out in jail.

Ernesto Cardenal

You are an Universe of Universes and your soul a source of songs.

Rubén Darío