# Ana María Matute's most beautiful quotes

"Making people cry is the only sin I believe in", "Childhood is not a stage of life: it is a complete world" and "A book does not exist until someone reads it": the most quoted lines of Spanish novelist Ana María Matute, from her interviews and Forgotten King Gudú, with the source of each.

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- Dec 4, 2021 · soy_viajeroeterno
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## Top 13

1. **Sometimes I think I fell from another galaxy.** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Collected by ABC Cultura in "Las frases de Ana María Matute" (24 November 2010).
2. **Childhood is not a stage of life: it is a complete, autonomous world, poetic and also cruel, but never soppy.** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Collected by ABC Cultura in "Las frases de Ana María Matute" (24 November 2010).
3. **I would find it truly discourteous if God did not exist.** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Collected by ABC Cultura in "Las frases de Ana María Matute" (24 November 2010).
4. **A book does not exist until someone reads it. And no one ever reads the same book.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Collected by ABC Cultura in "Las frases de Ana María Matute" (24 November 2010).
5. **In the novel I say that sometimes childhood is longer than life.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — On Paraíso inhabitado (2008), in La Razón.
6. **I believe in women writers, but not in women's literature, because I don't believe in men's literature either.** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Collected by ABC Cultura in "Las frases de Ana María Matute" (24 November 2010).
7. **Making people cry is the only sin I believe in.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Collected by ABC Cultura in "Las frases de Ana María Matute" (24 November 2010).
8. **Writing is always protesting, even if only against oneself.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Collected by ABC Cultura in "Las frases de Ana María Matute" (24 November 2010).
9. **The word is what saves us.** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — Collected by ABC Cultura in "Las frases de Ana María Matute" (24 November 2010).
10. **If I had not been able to share in the world of fairy tales and invent my own worlds, I would have died.** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Collected by ABC Cultura in "Las frases de Ana María Matute" (24 November 2010).
11. **The worst thing in this world is to survive.** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Collected by ABC Cultura in "Las frases de Ana María Matute" (24 November 2010).
12. **While intelligence has a limit, stupidity and malice have no visible or reachable bottom.** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Forgotten King Gudú (1996).
13. **Time heals everything, but it also burns everything.** (-2 · ▲0 ▼2) — Interview in El Correo.

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