Quotes of famous people

“Cherish the people who make up your home, and you'll notice the hearth fires burn brighter than ever before.”

“People cry, not because they are weak. It is because they've been strong for too long.”

“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.”

“Love is the bridge between you and everything.”

“Appear as you are, be as you appear.”

“The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.”

“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”

“Trump supporters are just now realizing that Superman is the Immigrant.”

“Take my hand, we'll make it i swear.”

“Today, going to schools is essential, since, just as doctors have a duty to protect life, writers must spread literature, because literature is in itself, along with art in general, the greatest form of freedom we still have.”

“While it's true that, recently, Ramiro Gutiérrez had shown a tendency toward tearful and painful literature, he had never felt the same way, for example, as the pathetic Werther or the gallant Don Quixote.”

“In a certain way, I think that literature is capable of effectively uncovering and revealing many more “layers” of the framework that composes and hides our society and ourselves. That is, it is capable of bringing us closer to something that, for lack of a better word, I will call “Truth,” and that applies to Art itself, more than to History, more than to Anthropology, or more than to any other branch of the Social Sciences.”

“Politicians should live like ordinary citizens.”

“His life had been a sum of half-hearted decisions.”

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

“Urban life becomes a space where beauty and decay, crowd and solitude, justice and injustice coexist.”

“Every literary work is a political act—not in the pamphleteering sense, which has done so much harm to art, but in that intimate—and sometimes devastating—way in which a phrase, an image, a character can shake the reader enough to make them doubt their own certainties.”

“I’m not interested in portraying the official city, the one that appears on postcards or government videos, but that other one—the one that pulses on the margins.”

“I have been opposed, from the beginning, to presenting ideological, political, or religious pamphleteering stances that seek to simplify the human experience into functional Manichaeism.”