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Quotes by Spanish Authors
"Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes."
"Have friends. 'Tis a second existence."
"We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute."
"Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a passing nightmare. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind."
"Some disappointments honor those who inspire them."
"My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons."
"I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes."
"As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave."
"Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples."
"The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father whether heaven was crying, he couldn't bring himself to reply. Six years later my mother's absence remained in the air around us, a deafening silence that I had not yet learned to stifle with words."
"It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems."
"Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist."
"Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic."
"What does my performance have to do with Russell Crowe's? Nothing. If I play Gladiator and we all play Gladiator with Ridley Scott in the same amount of time, maybe we have a chance to see who did it best."
"Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other."
"But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life."
"Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side."
"One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail."
"We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it."
"It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime."
"There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish."
"In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal."
"The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening."
"I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea."
"And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'"
"Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you."
"Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture."
"Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization."
"An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought."
"A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition."
"I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars."
"One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep."
"To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand."
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