25 Quotes by Manuel Rivas

A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.

Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.

See what's inside a drop of water. The whole seed of the universe. Come, come. See what's inside a drop of blood. The composition of life. It's all there. Hate as well. We approach the mystery of life, but it's impossible to understand the mystery of hate. The kind of hate that causes people not only to kill, but to want to erase you from the census of births. I have to concentrate on that mystery. Read everything there is. It has to be in a drop of blood. It has to have its chemistry.

The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body.

El pintor quería retratar las heridas invisibles de la existencia

La justicia pertenece al campo de las fuerzas del alma. Y por eso puede brotar en los lugares menos propicios, pues cuando la llamamos, allí acude, a veces con la venda en los ojos pero alenta al oído, desde no se sabe muy bien dónde, como una cosa anterior a jueces y acusados, incluso a las propias leyes escritas

A human's best training is with his shadow. You have to fight with your shadow.

A xente boa veu ao mundo para foderse, a mala anda por aí pisando forte. (p. 166)

الموتى الذين لا يموتون يكونون مصدر إزعاج