Mercè Rodoreda's most memorable lines
The top 3 according to 68 votes from people: Sadness, which never deceives, had deceived me. · The important things are the ones that don't seem so. · Things were beautiful, life not so much.. (Updated Sep 6, 2025.)
"Things were beautiful, life not so much", "The important things are the ones that don't seem so" and "I write because I like writing": lines by the Catalan novelist Mercè Rodoreda (1908–1983) from her novels, prefaces, letters and interviews, with the source of each.
Automatically translated (original in Català). See the original
Top 12
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Sadness, which never deceives, had deceived me.
De «Aloma» (1938).
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The important things are the ones that don't seem so.
De «Quanta, quanta guerra…» (1980).
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Things were beautiful, life not so much.
De «Aloma» (1938).
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Love: the further away, the more beautiful.
Citada por Montserrat Roig en «Digues que m'estimes encara que sigui mentida» (1991).
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I write because I like writing. If it didn't sound exaggerated, I'd say I write to please myself.
Prólogo de «Espejo roto» (1974).
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Sometimes I think getting to know someone is easy. In a gesture, an expression, a step […] I seem to see rays of light.
Artículo «Clarisme» (1934).
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Perhaps I write to affirm myself. To feel that I am…
Prólogo de «Espejo roto» (1974).
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I don't like Pedrolo. Brossa? Not even as a gift.
Sobre los escritores catalanes contemporáneos, 1980 (citado en El Punt Avui, 2014).
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I wrote it feverishly, as if every working day were the last of my life.
Sobre «La plaza del Diamante», en el prólogo de la 26.ª edición.
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What I will not leave behind in France is my energy or my youth.
Carta a Anna Murià desde Burdeos, 19 de diciembre de 1945.
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I want to write, I need to write; nothing has given me as much pleasure as a book of mine just published and smelling of fresh ink.
Carta a Anna Murià desde Burdeos, 19 de diciembre de 1945.
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I have never felt so at home as when I lived in my grandfather's house with my parents.
«Imatges d'infantesa», Serra d'Or (1982).
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