Ernesto Sabato quotes
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“Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?”
-- Ernesto SabatoSource : Ernesto Sabato (2011). “The Tunnel”, p.48, Penguin UK
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“The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.”
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“The first time I passed through the country (Switzerland) I had the impression it was swept down with a broom from one end to the other every morning by housewives who dumped all the dirt in Italy.”
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“Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions. And society, without realizing it respects and even exalts him, albeit with a kind of jealousy, fear and even repulsion, since few people want to discover the horrors that lurk in the depths of their souls. This is the highest mission of great literature, and there is no other.”
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“We are all made from star dust and we will all return to star dust, like a cosmic palindrome.”
Source : A. S. King (2014). “Glory O'Brien's History of the Future”, p.80, Hachette UK
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Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”
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Source : "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 48), 2000.
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“Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead”
Source : Song: The Golden Age, Album: Sea Change, 2002
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“Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?”
Source : Ernesto Sabato (2011). “The Tunnel”, p.48, Penguin UK
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“Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.”
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