Literature Quotes

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"Literature decodes the human condition."
José Donoso
"Language is the soul of a people."
José María Arguedas
"We must write to heal our wounds."
José María Arguedas
"The poor have the richest stories."
José María Arguedas
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"Words are like bodies and meanings like souls."
Pablo Neruda
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"I have written my love in the language of longing."
Pablo Neruda
M
"Literature is the mirror we hold up to our own mirrors."
Magali Quispe Quispe
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"Perhaps we are all stories that need to be told."
Isabel Allende
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"The most powerful words in any language are: tell me a story."
Isabel Allende
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"The storyteller preserves the memory of a people."
Ciro Alegría
C
"Literature captures the truth that facts cannot reach."
Ciro Alegría
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"The novel is the most perfect instrument for understanding human nature."
Mario Vargas Llosa
M
"Literature is fire."
Mario Vargas Llosa
M
"Literature preserves human experience."
Mario Vargas Llosa
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"I write in the dust of time."
Gabriela Mistral
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"I have written with tears and blood to speak truth."
Gabriela Mistral
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"I write because the world does not listen to the unwritten heart."
Gabriela Mistral
"Literature must serve the cause of human liberation and dignity."
José María Arguedas
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"I write to remember, and in remembering, to understand myself."
Isabel Allende
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"To write about the mountains is to write about the soul of a nation that refuses to be diminished."
Ciro Alegría
C
"The Indian writer carries a unique responsibility: to tell the truth that others wish to hide."
Ciro Alegría
C
"The work of the writer is to make the invisible visible, the silent vocal."
Ciro Alegría
J
"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."
Jorge Isaacs
J
"Literature immortalizes the human experience."
Jorge Isaacs
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"Literature teaches us that we are never truly alone in our struggles."
Magali Quispe Quispe
M
"Literature is the intimacy between strangers across time."
Magali Quispe Quispe
P
"A man who hasn't read Homer is like a man who hasn't seen the ocean."
Pablo Neruda
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"Every book is a door, and every reader is a key that unlocks new worlds."
Pablo Neruda
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"I believe that every person is a poem waiting to be read by someone willing to understand."
Pablo Neruda
"Language, like cinema, can bridge the gap between what is spoken and what is felt."
Claudia Llosa