top of page
.png){kind=small}
"At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know it was not I: it was another woman, who kept her notebooks so that one day I could use them. I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously. ... That's why my Grandmother Clara wrote in her notebooks, in order to see things in their true dimension and to defy her own poor memory."
Standard
Customized
More
"NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life.preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When we all part from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have to share is his own story."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"To be remembered, umbrella waits for the rain!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is so awkward that how our ancestors wasted their whole life and never thought about education or making difference for the future generations. My Grandfather lived more than a 100+ years, married 3 women and as he was illiterate he just wasted 115 fucking years. I wish I could live a hundred years like him to make difference, so the next generation does not use the same insulting words I am using today."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Even if you have to die tomorrow, die as a literate."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In the wink of an eye, all quaint days of the past, the present, and future will meld together into the bottomless unknown of perpetuity. Only trace evidence of our invertebrate existence will anoint future generations. In the crinkle of time, our houses will crumble apart. Companies that we worked for will go out of business or merge with other nameless conglomerates. What will survive us are our children and our words."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Leave beauty marks in the lives of those you meet, not scars."
Author Name
Personal Development
"That's what makes heroes so special. You carry the hopes of humanity into the realm of the eternal."
Author Name
Personal Development
"But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a direct understanding with God while everyone else must pass through the priestly bureaucracy."
Religion
"Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages."
Writing
"Sadness and boredom were more bearable than the effort of living a normal life. Perhaps the idea of death began to hover over her during that period, as a kind of higher order of lassitude in which she would not have to move the blood in her veins or the air in her lungs; her repose would be absolute- not to think, not to feel, not to be."
Sadness
"Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me."
Courage
"I would like to have been born a man, so I could leave too."
Freedom
"Of all fragrances, the sweetest is that of virtue."
Virtue
"She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them."
Regret
"But I don't want more things than I need, either."
Simplicity
"I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours."
Writing
"I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story."
Writing
bottom of page