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Jaume Cabré QUOTES

1 " Every once in a while, large cities have narrow streets, silent passageways that allow your footsteps to echo in the stillness of the night, and it seems like everything is going back to the way it was, when there were only a few of us and we all knew each other and greeted each other on the street. "

― Jaume Cabré

2 " A verdadeira arte provem da tristeza, a felicidade não é criativa. "

― Jaume Cabré , Jo confesso

3 " A mi edad, empezaba a darme cuenta de que, más que las cosas, lo importante es la ilusión que ponemos en ellas. Eso nos hace personas. "

― Jaume Cabré , Jo confesso

4 " But what are you? Buddhist? Japanese? Communist? What?’ ‘I’m nothing.’ ‘Can you be nothing?’ I never knew how to answer that question when I was asked it as a child, because the wording troubled me. Can you be nothing? I will be nothing. "

― Jaume Cabré , Jo confesso

5 " Książki, która nie zasługuje na ponowne przeczytanie, nie warto było czytać w ogóle. "

― Jaume Cabré , Jo confesso

6 " Generaciones y generaciones de baile frenético de millones de espermatozoides persiguiendo óvulos, concepciones casuales, muertes, aniquilaciones..., y ahora tú y yo estamos aquí, el uno frente al otro, como si no hubiera podido ser de ninguna otra manera. Como si sólo hubiera existido la posibilidad de un único árbol genealógico. "

― Jaume Cabré , Jo confesso

7 " every day I read and every day I realise that I have everything left to read. And every once in a while I reread, even though I only reread that which deserves the privilege of rereading. "

― Jaume Cabré , Jo confesso

8 " Evil. Why does your God allow it? He doesn’t keep evil from happening: all he does is punish the evildoer with eternal flames. Why doesn’t he prevent it? Do you have an answer? "

― Jaume Cabré , Jo confesso

9 " A veces me asusta el poder del arte y del estudio del arte. A veces no entiendo por qué la humanidad se relaciona a porrazos habiendo, como hay, tantas cosas por hacer. "

― Jaume Cabré , Jo confesso

10 " Once you’ve had a taste of artistic beauty, your life changes. Once you’ve heard the Monteverdi choir sing, your life changes. Once you’ve seen a Vermeer up close, your life changes; once you’ve read Proust, you are never the same again. What I don’t know is why. "

― Jaume Cabré , Jo confesso

11 " we try to survive the chaos with art’s order. "

― Jaume Cabré , Jo confesso

12 " Ολη η παιδική μου ηλικία στο σπίτι έχει καταγραφεί στο μυαλό μου σαν διαφάνειες από πίνακες του Χόπερ, με την ίδια κολλώδη μυστηριώδη μοναξιά. Βλέπω τον εαυτό μου σαν μία από αυτές τις φιγούρες που κάθονται σε ξέστρωτο κρεβάτι, με ένα βιβλίο παρατημένο σε μια γυμνή καρέκλα, ή που κοιτούν από το παράθυρο ή κάθονται δίπλα σ' ένα λιτό τραπέζι και παρατηρούν τον άδειο τοίχο. "

― Jaume Cabré , Jo confesso

13 " –L’art de debò prové d’alguna frustració. Des de la felicitat no es crea. "

― Jaume Cabré , Jo confesso

14 " Life is not the road or even the destination, but the journey, "

― Jaume Cabré , Podróż zimowa

15 " Killing in the name of God or in the name of the future is the same thing. When the justification is ideological, empathy and compassion vanish. One kills coldly, without one’s conscience being affected. Like the gratuitous crime of a psychopath. "

― Jaume Cabré , Jo confesso

16 " It’s hard to believe that the most unthinkable tragedies can be born of the most innocent things. "

― Jaume Cabré , Jo confesso

17 " And he closed the case. I found it very unfriendly. So young and already mystery made him uncomfortable. There was no way he could be my friend. Ruled out. Kaputt. Then it turned out he also went to Casp, a year ahead of me. And his name was Bernat Plensa i Punsoda. I may have said that already. And he was so uptight, as if they’d bathed him in a vat of hair spray and forgot to rinse him off. And I had to admit, after sixteen minutes, that that unfriendly boy who refused to accept mystery, who would never be my friend, and who was named Bernat Plensa i Punsoda, had something about him that made a violin bought for one hundred and seventy-five pesetas at Casa Parramon sound with a delicacy I had never been able to achieve. And Trullols looked at him with satisfaction and I thought what a piece of shit my violin was. That was when I swore that I would make him shut up forever, him, the violin dedicated to Madame d’Angoulême and the hair spray he’d bathed in; and I think that it would have been much better for everyone if I’d never had that thought. For the moment, all I did was let it gradually ripen. It’s hard to believe that the most unthinkable tragedies can be born of the most innocent things. "

― Jaume Cabré , Jo confesso

18 " Ik mis haar, maar ik wens haar toe dat ze iemand heeft gevonden die oprechter is dan ik. "

― Jaume Cabré , Jo confesso

19 " com tots els mortals, no sap veure la felicitat que té a la vora perquè s’enlluerna amb la que no té a l’abast. "

― Jaume Cabré , Jo confesso

20 " These pages are the day-to-day record of something written chaotically, in many tears mixed with a little ink. "

― Jaume Cabré , Jo confesso