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Quotes by Argentinian Authors
"There are official searchers, inquisitors. I have seen them in the performance of their function: they always arrive extremely tired from their journeys; they speak of a broken stairway which almost killed them; they talk with the librarian of galleries and stairs; sometimes they pick up the nearest volume and leaf through it, looking for infamous words. Obviously, no one expects to discover anything."
"Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much."
"I owe my first inkling of the problem of infinity to a large biscuit tin that was a source of vertiginous mystery during my childhood."
"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."
"I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized."
"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work."
"I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life."
"If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force."
"It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope."
"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side."
"Freedom of choice makes it possible to plan our lives and to make the most of ourselves. Yet if this freedom lacks noble goals or personal discipline, it degenerates into an inability to give oneself generously to others."
"What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?"
"Democracy is an abuse of statistics."
"I suspected once that any human life, however intricate and full it might be, consisted in reality of one moment: the moment when a man knows for all time who he is."
"I want not, that everybody hears about. Then I can't longer be myself."
"How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?"
"It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one."
"For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free."
"Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God."
"I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting."
"But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over."
"He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it."
"I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind."
"As religious leaders, we are called to be true 'people of dialogue,' to cooperate in building peace not as intermediaries but as authentic mediators. Intermediaries seek to give everyone a discount ultimately in order to gain something for themselves. However, the mediator is one who retains nothing for himself but rather spends himself generously until he is consumed, knowing that the only gain is peace. Each one of us is called to be an artisan of peace, by uniting and not dividing, by extinguishing hatred and not holding on to it, by opening paths to dialogue and not by constructing new walls! Let us dialogue and meet one another in order to establish a culture of dialogue in the world, a culture of encounter."
"Only the exclusive and indissoluble union between a man and a woman has a plenary role to play in society as a stable commitment that bears fruit in new life."
"I am honest and want to hear what the people have to say. I do not want to enrich myself in this job."
"The lack of historical memory is a serious shortcoming in our society. A mentality that can only say, 'Then was then, now is now, is ultimately immature. Knowing and judging past events is the only way to build a meaningful future. Memory is necessary for growth."
"Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God."
"I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it."
"They believe, along the lines of social networks, that love can be connected or disconnected at the whim of the consumer, and the relationship quickly 'blocked'. We treat affective relationships the way we treat material objects and the environment : everything is disposable; everyone uses and throws away, takes and breaks, exploits and squeezes to the last drop. Then, goodbye."
"In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power."
"You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened."
"I travel a lot to promote the perfumes and to do the commercials."
"We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself."
"I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being."
"We will learn together how to solve the problems of the country."
"Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing - not only by our words - that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history."
"In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects."
"The problem is not in being sinners, the problem is when we don't let ourselves be transformed in love by the encounter with Christ."
"If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious."
"God never tires of forgiving us, we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy."
"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."
"Before all else, the Gospel invites us to respond to the God of love who saves us, to see God in others and to go forth from ourselves to seek the good of others."
"The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials."
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
"The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible."
"Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship."
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