Juan Carlos Onetti

"Peace is just the pause between conflicts."

"Nature is indifferent to our suffering."

"Perseverance is stubbornness with a better narrative."

"Gratitude is remembering the good while ignoring the rest."

"Humor is how we laugh at the tragedy of existence."

"The city sleeps, but the writer never does."

"Every character I create is a version of myself I'm trying to escape."

"Silence is the only honest language."

"We live in the margins of our own stories."

"To understand humanity, observe its small cruelties."

"Writing is an act of violence against the reader."

"The present is just the past we haven't forgotten yet."

"Love is the excuse we use for our worst behavior."

"Betrayal is the language of the closest relationships."

"Freedom is choosing which prison to live in."

"Success is surviving long enough to regret your choices."

"The soul exists in the stories we tell ourselves."

"Death gives meaning to life by its inevitability."

"We are all characters in someone else's narrative."

"Creativity begins where rational thought ends."

"The past is a country we've already lost."

"Beauty is what we create to deny the ugliness within."

"Truth is the most dangerous currency."

"Faith is believing in what you know isn't true."

"Solitude is where I find the people I need to understand."

"Power is the ability to make others forget their own pain."

"Work is the distraction from our fundamental emptiness."

"Dreams are the only real estate we truly own."

"Relationships are the experiments we conduct with hope."

"Patience is the art of waiting for disappointment."