Juan Carlos Onetti

"The artist's job is to make us uncomfortable with our comfort."

"We are all unreliable narrators of our own lives."

"Kindness is the only philosophy that withstands scrutiny."

"The future is simply a collection of abandoned hopes."

"Peace is what remains when we stop fighting ourselves."

"Identity is something we construct, not something we discover."

"The most important conversations are those we never have."

"Fear teaches us more about ourselves than courage ever could."

"We measure our lives in small failures and smaller victories."

"Nature indifferent to our suffering is somehow comforting."

"The secret of living well is low expectations."

"Gratitude is the acknowledgment that we cannot stand alone."

"We are all writing memoirs of lives we haven't fully lived."

"Health is simply the period between illnesses."

"Adventure is what we call our mistakes when we survive them."

"The greatest strength is the ability to endure contradiction."

"Money is frozen time, and time is all we truly have."

"Technology is the latest way we've found to avoid ourselves."

"War reveals humanity's capacity for both evil and nobility."

"Inspiration is simply hard work pretending to be magic."

"We inherit our demons as much as our assets."

"Patience is the acceptance that change moves at its own pace."

"The greatest justice is understanding why things happen as they do."

"Leadership is the burden of making decisions others avoid."

"Music speaks what we can never articulate."

"Education teaches us what we don't know; wisdom teaches us what we cannot know."

"Science is our attempt to codify what remains fundamentally mysterious."

"The body is a record of everything we've endured."

"We love not people but the versions of ourselves we become in their presence."

"The writer is a doctor who treats the disease of being human."