Juan Carlos Onetti

"Change is the only constant, yet we spend our lives resisting it."

"Knowledge is the burden of seeing what others ignore."

"Humor is the scar tissue formed after emotional wounds."

"We are all architects of our own exile."

"The truth is that there are no final truths."

"Hope is the refusal to accept what we already know."

"A life examined is a life understood, if not accepted."

"We build cities to keep the darkness at bay, but it follows us inside."

"Creativity is the act of making order from chaos."

"Death is the ultimate truth that gives meaning to living."

"We are separated from ourselves by language and time."

"The city is a woman who demands everything from you and gives you nothing in return."

"I write to understand what I don't understand."

"Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven."

"The past is always present; it's just a matter of recognizing it."

"In solitude, we find the truth about ourselves that society hides."

"Every love story is a tragedy waiting to happen."

"To create is to rebel against the order of things."

"Happiness is a lie we tell ourselves to endure."

"The only real adventure is internal."

"Words are weapons we use to wound ourselves."

"Freedom is the burden we all carry without knowing."

"Art exists because reality is unbearable."

"Success is the art of disappointing yourself less each day."

"We are all exiles in our own lives."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but indifference to it."

"The imagination is the only place where truth resides."

"Life is a series of small betrayals we call experience."

"Literature is the conversation with the dead."

"Change is the only constant we refuse to accept."