Luisa Valenzuela > Quotes

“Me parece que la duda y la incertidumbre son mucho más importantes que el tener razón.”
― Luisa Valenzuela, El Mañana

“In a world of beings who don't exist, who self-destruct and erase themselves, perhaps one should make a valiant effort to at least draw oneself. Maybe that's where all the sex comes from- to feel real.”
― Luisa Valenzuela, Dark Desires and the Others

“The act of writing and the act of love… are one and the same. Equivalent enquiry, similar search.”
― Luisa Valenzuela

“Because fear called her by her name. (Her own name, not fear’s name. Fear doesn’t have a name; it’s just the steady beat underneath a smile.)”
― Luisa Valenzuela, Dark Desires and the Others

“A few drops of water, a little humidity is enough to dissolve the salt nails, and then all is one: the dust and what is made of dust.”
― Luisa Valenzuela, He Who Searches

“Language likes to play those dirty tricks on us, or rather it makes us see the unconfessable within ourselves more clearly.”
― Luisa Valenzuela, He Who Searches