# Ernesto Sabato's most famous quotes

Living as building future memories, the "nothing" that means "everything" and the crack through which life is reborn: the most quoted lines of Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato, from The Tunnel, On Heroes and Tombs, Before the End and The Resistance.

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## Top 12

1. **It is always slightly sinister to return to places that have witnessed a moment of perfection.** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — On Heroes and Tombs (1961).
2. **Human beings know how to turn obstacles into new paths, because life needs only the space of a crack to be reborn.** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — The Resistance (2000).
3. **Apparently, the dignity of human life was not part of the globalization plan.** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Antes del fin (Before the End, 1998).
4. **It is strange, but living consists of building future memories.** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — On Heroes and Tombs (1961).
5. **And he had answered "nothing", the way we answer when we are thinking "everything".** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — On Heroes and Tombs (1961).
6. **Death is not my type either, and yet it often attracts me.** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — The Tunnel (1948).
7. **What is admirable is that man goes on fighting and creating beauty in the midst of a barbaric and hostile world.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Men and Gears (1951).
8. **Life is so short and the craft of living so hard that, by the time you begin to learn it, it is already time to die.** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Collected in Cita-logía, by Eduardo Palomo (2013).
9. **One cannot live without heroes, saints or martyrs.** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Antes del fin (Before the End, 1998).
10. **There is one way to help protect humanity, and that is not to resign yourself.** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Collected in Cita-logía, by Eduardo Palomo (2013).
11. **Art can reach where logic cannot.** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Collected in Un siglo de citas, by Albaigès (1997).
12. **A good writer expresses great things with small words, unlike the bad writer, who says trivial things with grandiose words.** (-1 · ▲2 ▼3) — Collected in Cita-logía, by Eduardo Palomo (2013).

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