Fernando Vallejo

"Success is the art of disappointing people slowly."

"We live in the spaces between what we say and what we mean."

"Memory is the disease of consciousness."

"Every act of kindness is an act of rebellion."

"The soul speaks in silences."

"We are all refugees from our own lives."

"Death is the only honest ending."

"The past is a country from which we are all exiles."

"Life is a series of rehearsals for a performance that never comes."

"Every word we write is a step toward the grave."

"Wisdom is knowing what we cannot change."

"We are all complicit in the world's suffering."

"The greatest revolution is internal."

"Love and death are the only true constants."

"We become ourselves through the act of writing."

"Hope is the cruelest of all emotions."

"The only freedom is the freedom to choose our suffering."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that merely to exist in it is a revolutionary act."

"Language is the instrument through which we murder the truth."

"Colombia is a country where the past devours the future."

"Writing is an act of defiance against oblivion."

"The family is the first prison of the human soul."

"What we call civilization is nothing more than the art of forgetting."

"Memory is the only immortality we possess."

"The church has always been the enemy of knowledge and freedom."

"Nostalgia is a form of cowardice."

"Literature exists to tell the truths that history refuses to acknowledge."

"Every word we speak is a betrayal of the silence that came before it."

"The past is a prison from which we cannot escape."

"Hope is the most dangerous of all illusions."