Ernesto Sabato's most famous quotes
The top 3 according to 52 votes from people: It is always slightly sinister to return to places that have witnessed a moment of perfection. · Human beings know how to turn obstacles into new paths, because life needs only the space of a crack to be reborn. · Apparently, the dignity of human life was not part of the globalization plan.. (Updated Jun 3, 2021.)
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.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 12
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It is always slightly sinister to return to places that have witnessed a moment of perfection.
On Heroes and Tombs (1961).
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Human beings know how to turn obstacles into new paths, because life needs only the space of a crack to be reborn.
The Resistance (2000).
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Apparently, the dignity of human life was not part of the globalization plan.
Antes del fin (Before the End, 1998).
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It is strange, but living consists of building future memories.
On Heroes and Tombs (1961).
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And he had answered "nothing", the way we answer when we are thinking "everything".
On Heroes and Tombs (1961).
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Death is not my type either, and yet it often attracts me.
The Tunnel (1948).
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What is admirable is that man goes on fighting and creating beauty in the midst of a barbaric and hostile world.
Men and Gears (1951).
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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.
Collected in Cita-logía, by Eduardo Palomo (2013).
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One cannot live without heroes, saints or martyrs.
Antes del fin (Before the End, 1998).
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There is one way to help protect humanity, and that is not to resign yourself.
Collected in Cita-logía, by Eduardo Palomo (2013).
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Art can reach where logic cannot.
Collected in Un siglo de citas, by Albaigès (1997).
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A good writer expresses great things with small words, unlike the bad writer, who says trivial things with grandiose words.
Collected in Cita-logía, by Eduardo Palomo (2013).
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