Juan Carlos Onetti

"Beauty lies in the acknowledgment of suffering."

"Truth is always more interesting than fiction."

"The greatest act of faith is continuing to write."

"Loneliness is the price we pay for consciousness."

"Power corrupts slowly, but it corrupts inevitably."

"Death is the only honest ending."

"Every person carries multiple selves within them."

"Work is what we do to avoid thinking about ourselves."

"Dreams are the only democracy that exists."

"The past is never really past; it's just disguised."

"Relationships are agreements we make with our illusions."

"Patience is understanding that time will betray us anyway."

"Kindness is weakness dressed as virtue."

"Strength comes from accepting your own fragility."

"Fear is the only honest emotion we have."

"Money is freedom, but only if you don't care about morality."

"Health is a temporary reprieve from the inevitable."

"The greatest motivation is desperation."

"Inspiration is for those who haven't learned to write."

"Justice is what the powerful decide it to be."

"Leadership is the art of making others believe in your lies."

"Music is what words cannot say."

"Science is our attempt to make sense of chaos."

"Technology is just another way to avoid living."

"War is what happens when conversation fails completely."

"Politics is the theater of the absurd made real."

"History repeats itself because we refuse to learn."

"Education teaches you how to think like everyone else."

"Knowledge is the burden of understanding everything."

"Hope is a disease that prevents us from acting."