8 Quotes by Felisberto Hernández

When writers and psychologists believe they've illuminated reality, they are referring to something else: they transform the dark reality into a bright reality and then it's no longer reality with its real color, quality, and condition--instead they set forth a reality of their own heads that has nothing to do with the events spontaneously occurring in the spirit.

I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other.

Yo he vivido cerca de otras personas y me he guardado recuerdos que no me pertenecen.

Por caminos muy distintos he tenido siempre los mismo recuerdos. De día y de noche ellos corren por mi memoria como los ríos de una país. Algunas veces yo los contemplo; y otras veces ellos se desbordan.

Pero donde más sufría era en la memoria

My memories are a silent movie: I can put my old eyes on to see them, but my ears are deaf to them.

I was in the situation of someone who has assumed, all his life, that madness was on eway, and suddenly in its grip, discovers that it is not only different from the way he'd imagined but that the person suffering from it is someone else, and that this someone else is not interested in finding out what madness is like: he is simply immersed in it, or it has descended on him, and that's that.

Descubrí que su belleza era agresiva, aunque su agresividad no fuera contra nada , igual me parecía que era agresiva, que esa era la cualidad de su belleza.