Juan Carlos Onetti

"Kindness is the weakness of those who lack strength."

"Strength is enduring what we cannot change."

"Fear is the only guide that never lies."

"Money is the language of those without words."

"Health is the period between diagnoses."

"Adventure is what we call our mistakes when they succeed."

"Imagination is the rebellion against reality."

"Science is our mythology, dressed in facts."

"Technology is speed without direction."

"War is politics with different weapons."

"Politics is the theater where hope dies slowly."

"History is written by those who understand language."

"Education is the process of forgetting what you loved."

"Knowledge is the ability to be disappointed more accurately."

"Hope is the luxury of those who haven't lived long enough."

"Peace is the lie we tell before the next war."

"Nature is a fiction we invented to comfort ourselves."

"Perseverance is just refusal dressed as virtue."

"Gratitude is the memory of benefits we've received."

"Humor is the smile we wear over our wounds."

"The writer is always trying to kill their past self."

"Every page is a confession without redemption."

"The writer is a man who has taught himself to produce a certain kind of confusion in the minds of his readers."

"I write to understand myself, not to entertain others."

"Every man carries within him the seed of his own destruction."

"Love is the only thing that justifies our existence."

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

"We are all condemned to live with the consequences of our choices."

"Beauty exists in the eye of the beholder, not in the object itself."

"Solitude is the price of authenticity."