Carmen Laforet quotes

“The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.”
-- Carmen Laforet

Source : Carmen Laforet, Edith Grossman (2007). “Nada”

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“I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays...”
-- Carmen Laforet

Source : Carmen Laforet, Edith Grossman (2007). “Nada”

#Stories Quotes #Decay Quotes #Goes On Quotes

“I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.”
-- Carmen Laforet

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“That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.”
-- Carmen Laforet

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“It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared.”
-- Carmen Laforet

#Firsts Quotes #Scared Quotes #First Time Quotes

“When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that's what I thought then.”
-- Carmen Laforet

“Beneath the broad tides of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depth the changes that take place upon the surface.”

“I'm not good at secrets, so don't tell me any.”

“The Foreign Office knows no secrets.”

“Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.”

“We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks... With enough of us, around the world, we’ll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge — we’ll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?”

Source : "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto". Book by Aaron Swartz, July 2008.

“Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.”

“The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.”

“Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.”

“The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.”

“Our street corners keep secrets, and our road signs only suggest, never deciding for us, never knowing if the destination to which they lead, is where we truely belong. Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will some day end, but that most of us just live to follow directions, and many times we end up totally lost.”