“Nothing is lost if one has the courage to proclaim that all is lost and we must begin anew.”
Nada está perdido si se tiene el valor de proclamar que todo está perdido y hay que empezar de nuevo.
Source: Rayuela (Hopscotch) (1963), Chapter 71.
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Nada está perdido si se tiene el valor de proclamar que todo está perdido y hay que empezar de nuevo.
Rayuela (Hopscotch) (1963)
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Argentinian writer 1914–1984Related quotes
“Nothing at all is lost
When life has clear purpose.”
"When You Have Purpose", as quoted in Understanding Vietnam by Neil Jamieson (University of California Press, 1995), p. 267, and in Renovating Politics in Contemporary Vietnam by Zachary Abuza (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001), p. 58
Variant: All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.
Source: Paradise Lost
“A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.”
L'homme d'entendement n'a rien perdu, s'il a soi-même.
Book I, Ch. 39
Essais (1595), Book I
“Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost.”
Source: The Art of Fiction
“A day lost at the beginning of project hurts just as much as a day lost at the end.”
The Deadline (1997).
“Nothing that has ever happened should be regarded as lost for history.”
Source: Theses on the Philosophy of History (1940), III
Context: Nothing that has ever happened should be regarded as lost for history. To be sure, only a redeemed mankind receives the fullness of its past — which is to say, only a redeemed mankind has its past become citable in all its moments. Each moment it has lived becomes a citation à l'ordre du jour — and that day is Judgement Day.