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A Luminous Republic QUOTES

A Luminous Republic QUOTES

1 " Everything fights death, I thought, from maggots to sequoias, from the river Eré to a termite. I will not die, I will not die, I will not die. "

― Andrés Barba , A Luminous Republic

2 " But trees have no interest in good and evil, insects and plant roots have no interest in the reasons of man, much less his longing, and there is something comforting about that. "

― Andrés Barba , A Luminous Republic

3 " Puede que los muertos nos traicionen al abandonarnos, pero nosotros también los traicionamos para vivir. "

― Andrés Barba , A Luminous Republic

4 " Believing in magic is the same as love: those convinced of its existence, and of falling in love, end up doing so sincerely, and those who doubt their feelings thwart the very possibility of having them, a paradox that leaves us forlorn, wondering what we might have become if only we'd allowed ourselves to believe. "

― Andrés Barba , A Luminous Republic

5 " Loss of trust is similar to heartbreak. Both lay bare some internal wound, both make us feel older than we are. "

― Andrés Barba , A Luminous Republic

6 " To name is to bestow a fate, to listen is to comply "

― Andrés Barba , A Luminous Republic

7 " So how does love start from scratch? How does one live in a world with no points of reference? "

― Andrés Barba , A Luminous Republic

8 " Love and fear have one thing in common: they are both states in which we allow ourselves to be fooled and guided. "

― Andrés Barba , A Luminous Republic

9 " Hij zei dat om het niet te hoeven geloven, alleen in de hoop dat de werkelijkheid hem zou tegenspreken. "

― Andrés Barba , A Luminous Republic

10 " Soms lijkt het alsof je aan boord van een machtige onderzeeër moet gaan om de diepten van de menselijke ziel te bereiken, maar vervolgens vind je jezelf terug in een badkuip terwijl je in een duikpak kopje-onder probeert te gaan. "

― Andrés Barba , A Luminous Republic

11 " Blood courses through everything, it fills everything. Beneath the green jungle, beneath the brown river, beneath the red earth there is always blood, a blood that flows and completes things. "

― Andrés Barba , A Luminous Republic

12 " The written word stays with us; like photography, it too possesses the somber, granular persistence of evidence "

― Andrés Barba , A Luminous Republic

13 " Perhaps it's impossible to understand and forgive others without having first forgiven and understood oneself. "

― Andrés Barba , A Luminous Republic

14 " So how does love start from scratch? How does one love in a world with no points of reference? "

― Andrés Barba , A Luminous Republic

15 " La posesión es un dato puro de conciencia infantil, una categoría con la que se filtra la realidad. Los niños de los altercados, aquellos niños y niñas a los que ya comenzábamos a ver a diario apostados en las calles entre algunos semáforoso durmiendo en pequeños grupos echados juntos a la orilla del Eré y que desaparecían de la ciudad al llegar la noche, compartían con mi hija la conciencia de que - a diferencia de los niños "normales" no eran herederos legítimos de nada. Y como no eran herederos legítimos de tenían que robar. "

― Andrés Barba , A Luminous Republic