Enrique > Enrique's Quotes

“I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives

“The sea is not a surface. It is, from top to bottom, an abyss. “If you want to cross the sea, sink.”
― Pascal Quignard, The Hatred of Music

“Only years of practice will teach you the mysteries and bold certainty of a real gardener, who treads at random, yet tramples on nothing.”
― Karel Čapek

“I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.”
― Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

“Nostalgia is cowardice”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“El que resiste, gana”
― Camilo José Cela

“The coming years will prove increasingly cynical and cruel. People will definitely not slip into oblivion while hugging each other. The final stages in the life of humanity will be marked by the monstrous war of all against all: the amount of suffering will be maximal.”
― Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail?

“Parece instintivamente que la felicidad está por venir. Que la palabra felicidad remite al futuro. Pero remite realmente a un pasado remoto, del que la extrapolamos al futuro remoto con un movimiento mecánico de autodefensa. Se ha dicho que la literatura de ciencia ficción está llena de añoranzas prehistóricas. Eso es. Sólo se puede soñar el pasado. El futuro es un pasado actuante. Un pasado que actúa como futuro. Confío en que seré feliz porque alguna vez lo fui. Y creo que alguna vez lo fui porque entonces, aquella vez, creía asimismo haberlo sido en otro tiempo. Todo instante de felicidad no es sino la confirmación de que tenemos un pasado. Sólo la memoria goza.”
― Francisco Umbral, Mortal y rosa

“Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.”
― Grant Morrison, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human