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Amar es combatir, es abrir puertas, dejar de ser fantasma con un n u mero a perpetua cadena condenado por un amo sin rostro.
To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master.
— Libertad bajo palabra (1949), "Piedra de sol" (translated as "The Sun Stone",1963).
A tal punto me hunden mis palabras, como dichas por
Alejo Carpentier— English political scientist and historian. In the diplomatic service until 1936, he was Assistant Editor of The Times (1941-6) and wrote several important historical texts, including biographies of Marx (1934) and Bakunin (1937).
Antes que me hubiera apasionado por mujer alguna, jugue mi corazo n al azar y me lo gano la violencia. Before I felt passion for any woman, I gambled my heart and lost it to violence.
— 1924 La vora gine, pt.1 (translated asTheVortex,1935).
Creio até que o coração dela ensinou-me alguma coisa, embora noviço, ou por isso mesmo. Nesta matéria desaprende-se com o uso e o ignorante é que é douto.
joaquim maria machado de assis— I even thought her heart taught me something, in spite of its inexperience, or perhaps precisely because of it, for in matters of love one unlearns with practice, and the novice is the learned one.
— "Primas de Sapucaia!" (1883), first collected in Histórias sem data (1884); Jack Schmitt and Lorie Ishimatsu (trans.) The Devil's Church, and Other Stories (London: Grafton, 1987) p. 19.
La literatura es un vasto bosque y las obras maestras son los lagos, los árboles inmensos o extrañísimos, las elocuentes flores preciosas o las escondidas grutas, pero un bosque también está compuesto por árboles comunes y corrientes, por yerbazales, por charcos, por plantas parásitas, por hongos y por florecillas silvestres.
roberto bolaño— Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, but a forest is also made up of ordinary trees, patches of grass, puddles, clinging vines, mushrooms and little wildflowers.
Bueno, si mi pueblo perece, por falta de conocimiento. Aqui le va una aspirina
Vico C— Well, if my people perish, for lack of knowledge. Here's an aspirin. "Crack Crack" (2002). The first sentence is from the Book of Hosea, 4:6.
Para mí ser sexy no es casi nada, yo siempre me fijo en lo que tienen las personas por dentro.
patricia conde— Being sexy isn't interesting for me, I always look at what people have inside.
Otros todos son ajenos, que la necedad siempre va por demasías, y aquí infeliz: no tienen día, ni aun hora suya, con tal exceso de ajenos, que alguno fue llamado “el de todos”. Aun en el entendimiento, que para todos saben y para sí ignoran.
baltasar gracián— Some people belong entirely to others … They have not a day, not an hour to call their own, so completely do they give themselves to others. This is true even in matters of understanding. Some people know everything for others and nothing for themselves.Maxim 252
No vaya por generalidades en el vivir, si ya no fuere en favor de la virtud, ni intime leyes precisas al querer, que avrá de bever mañana del agua que desprecia hoi.
baltasar gracián— Don't live by generalities, unless it be to act virtuously, and don't ask desire to follow precise laws, for you will have to drink tomorrow from the water you scorn today.
— Maxim 288 (p. 162)
Huir el rostro al claro desengaño,beber veneno por licor süave,olvidar el provecho, amar el daño;creer que un cielo en un infierno cabe,dar la vida y el alma a un desengaño;esto es amor. Quien lo probó lo sabe.
lope de vega— To turn your face from clear proofs of deceit,To drink poison as if it were a soothing liquor,To disregard gain and delight in being injured.To believe that heaven can lie contained in hell;To devote your life and soul to being disillusioned;This is love; whoever has tasted it, knows.
— Sonnet, "Desmayarse, atreverse, estar furioso", line 9, from Rimas (1602); cited from José Manuel Blecua (ed.) Lírica (Madrid: Clásicos Castalia, [1981] 1999) p. 136. Translation from Eugenio Florit (ed.) Introduction to Spanish Poetry (New York: Dover, [1964] 1991) p. 65.
Vivo y viviré por la Iglesia; vívo y moriré por ella.
— I live and will live for the Church; I live and will die for her.As quoted in "Father Francisco Palau y Quer A Passion for the Church" by Carmelite Missionaries, Rome, as translated by David Joseph Centner
He sospechado alguna vez que la única cosa sin misterio es la felicidad, porque se justifica por sí sola.
jorge luis borges— I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification."Unworthy", in Brodie's Report (1970); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)Variant: I have thought from time to time that the only thing without mystery is happiness, since it justifies itself.
Da Lua os claros raios rutilavam Pelas argênteas ondas Neptuninas, As estrelas os Céus acompanhavam, Qual campo revestido de boninas; Os furiosos ventos repousavam Pelas covas escuras peregrinas. porém da armada a gente vigiava, Como por longo tempo costumava.
luís de camões— The moon, full orb'd, forsakes her watery cave,
And lifts her lovely head above the wave.
The snowy splendours of her modest ray
Stream o'er the glistening waves, and quivering play:
Around her, glittering on the heaven's arched brow,
Unnumber'd stars, enclosed in azure, glow,
Thick as the dew-drops of the April dawn,
Or May-flowers crowding o'er the daisy-lawn:
The canvas whitens in the silvery beam,
And with a mild pale red the pendants gleam:
The masts' tall shadows tremble o'er the deep;
The peaceful winds a holy silence keep;
The watchman's carol, echo'd from the prows,
Alone, at times, awakes the still repose.Canto I, st. 58 (as translated by Mickle).
Queimou o sagrado templo de Diana, Do subtil Tesifónio fabricado, Heróstrato, por ser da gente humana Conhecido no mundo e nomeado: Se também com tais obras nos engana O desejo de um nome avantajado, Mais razão há que queira eterna glória Quem faz obras tão dignas de memória.
luís de camões— If chaste Diana's consecrated Fane,
Rais'd by the wondrous skill of Ctesiphon,
To sacrilegious flames was sacrific'd
By Eratostratus, to blazon forth
His name; if such unholy deeds are wrought
Vain-glory to perpetuate; how much
More due is deathless fame to him, whose acts
Are worthy of eternal memory!Canto II, stanza 113 (translated by Thomas Moore Musgrave).
Queria perdoar-lhe o Rei benino, Movido das palavras que o magoam; Mas o pertinaz povo, e seu destino (Que desta sorte o quis) lhe não perdoam. Arrancam das espadas de aço fino Os que por bom tal feito ali apregoam. Contra uma dama, ó peitos carniceiros, Feros vos amostrais, e cavaleiros?
luís de camões— In tears she utter'd—as the frozen snow
Touch'd by the spring's mild ray, begins to flow,
So just began to melt his stubborn soul,
As mild-ray'd pity o'er the tyrant stole;
But destiny forbade: with eager zeal,
Again pretended for the public weal,
Her fierce accusers urged her speedy doom;
Again dark rage diffused its horrid gloom
O'er stern Alonzo's brow: swift at the sign,
Their swords unsheathed around her brandish'd shine.
O foul disgrace, of knighthood lasting stain,
By men of arms a helpless lady slain!Canto III, st. 130 (translated by Mickle); of Inez de Castro.
"Creyó por primera vez entender porqué se decía que la vida es sueño: si uno vive bastante, los hechos de su vida, como los de un sueño, su vuelven incomunicables porque a nadie interesan."
adolfo bioy casares— He thought he understood for the first time why some said life is a dream: If one lives long enough, facts about your life, just like your dreams, become impossible to communicate, because nobody cares about them.Diario de la Guerra del Cerdo, 1969.
"Las mujeres son el impuesto que pagamos por el placer."
adolfo bioy casares— Women are the tax we pay on pleasureUna muñeca rusa, 1991.
"No he notado en las feministas mayor simpatía por las otras mujeres."
adolfo bioy casares— I have not perceived any increased sympathy for other women in feminists."Descanso de caminantes, 2001.
Yo quiero salir del mundo por la puerta natural: en un carro de hojas verdes a morir me han de llevar. No me pongan en lo oscuro a morir como un traidor: yo soy bueno, y como bueno moriré de cara al sol.
josé martí— I wish to leave the world
By its natural door;
In my tomb of green leaves
They are to carry me to die.
Do not put me in the dark
To die like a traitor;
I am good, and like a good thing
I will die with my face to the sun.A Morir [To Die] (1894)
El Perú es desde este momento libre e independiente por la voluntad general de los pueblos y por la justicia de su causa que Dios defiende. ¡Viva la patria! ¡Viva la libertad! ¡Viva la independencia!
josé de san martín— From this moment on, Peru is free and independent by the general will of its people and by the justice of its cause that God defends. Long live the nation! Long live the freedom! Long live the independence!(Declaration of the Peruvian independence, July 28, 1821).
Y á Roma por todo.
Miguel de Cervantes— To Rome for everything.
— Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, 2, 13, 55. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 677.
Sin embargo, resulta sospechoso el modo que tiene el autor de unir la mitología griega con la cristiana, llegando a una especie de pandeísmo, que, por lo demás, siempre queda limitado por la presencia de esa divina Providencia.
— It is suspicious how the author has to unite the Greek and Christian mythology, leading to a kind of pandeism, which, moreover, is always limited by the presence of that divine Providence.
— Joaquín Alvárez Barrientos, La novela del siglo XVIII?, Page 257, 1991.
«Error de sistema. Reinicie, por favor»
— System error. Please reboot [ ]
«¿Qué tal os va por España»?- Pues no nos podemos quejar. O sea, que bien ¿no?- no, que no nos podemos quejar.»
— How's it going in Spain? - Well, we can't complain. So good, right? - No, we can't complain! [ ]
Well, that's all right he tried .:; That' s the im por tant thing.:; I think he should get a nice big raise for trying so hard.
— Compare this to the Vonnegut story, in which it says,
por las verdades se pierden los amigos, e per las non dezir se fazen desamigos. Telling the truth loses you friends; not telling it gains you enemies.
Juan Ruiz— c.1330 Libro de Buen Amor, stanza165.
Pois vens ver os segredos escondidos Da natureza e do úmido elemento, A nenhum grande humano concedidos De nobre ou de imortal merecimento, Ouve os danos de mim, que apercebidos Estão a teu sobejo atrevimento, por todo o largo mar e pela terra, Que ainda hás de sojugar com dura guerra.
luís de camões— Com'st thou to penetrate the mysteries
Of nature, and this humid element,
Which to no mortal yet have been reveal'd,
Whate'er his merit, or his deathless fame?
But listen! Thou shalt know what punishments
For thy bold daring are by me prepar'd,
Which on the spacious deep thou shalt endure,
And 'midst the regions thou shalt yet subdue
By force of arms.Canto V, st. 42 (translated by Thomas Moore Musgrave).
As armas e os barões assinalados Que, da ocidental praia lusitana por mares nunca de antes navegados Passaram ainda além da Taprobana E em perigos e guerras esforçados Mais do que permitia a força humana Entre gente remota edificaram Novo Reino, que tanto sublimaram.
— Arms and the Heroes, who from Lisbon's shore,
Thro' seas where sail was never spread before,
Beyond where Ceylon lifts her spicy breast,
And waves her woods above the watery waste,
With prowess more than human forc'd their way
To the fair kingdoms of the rising day:
What wars they wag'd, what seas, what dangers past,
What glorious empire crown'd their toils at last.
— Luís de Camões, opening lines of The Lusiads (1572), as translated by William Julius Mickle (1776).
