Quotes of famous people

“The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the Unabridged Dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing factory.”

“There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious out-look; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows!”

“In quoting others, we cite ourselves.”

“We forgot we have Holy Body not less than our Holy Spirit.”

“But I had loved him. I loved him longer and truer than I had anyone in my whole life and I would probably never love anyone that way again. Which to be honest was almost a relief.”

“Telling stories from the margins is a symbolic act of justice.”

“What society refuses to see is what most strongly defines it.”

“In the most vulnerable, there can be dignity, memory, and poetry.”

“From the margins, one can speak with irony, tenderness, and rage.”

“A stray dog listens to what no one says and sees what is hidden, making him a privileged narrator.”

“The mestizo dog is an intense allegory of the Latin American condition.”

“Proud to be a "damn South American" and not a "suck-up" to the United States.”

“School is not a daycare center.”

“Just a moment ago, he was certainly contemplating a shadow on the ground, and now he was the shadow contemplating himself.”

“I must say that in Chile, the supremacy of the Market as the all-powerful governing body has made the development of the cultural field even more difficult than in Mexico.”

“Silence has become omnipresent and seemingly infinite for many miles, even longer than your mind can remember.”

“Undoubtedly, he feared that smile”

“Having accepted this, there was nothing left but to adapt to the new conditions, a task that cost him a world or perhaps two.”

“Although he still continued to go out walking alone, it was also true that with every outing, in each of them, he used to feel something strange and dark accumulating within him.”