Camilo Jose Cela Quotes

#1. When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.

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#2. I am not, sir, a bad person, though in truth I am not lacking in reasons for being one.
[Sp., Yo, senor, no soy malo, aunque no me faltarian motivos para serlo.]

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#3. There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.

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#4. On the hinder slope of the hill two little goatherds are tending a flock of goats; one of them is sitting on a rock whittling a crook out of ash, while the other is trying to coax a few tweets out of a reed flute.

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#5. I'm not made to philosophize, I don't have the heart for it. My heart is more like a machine for making blood to be spilled in a knife fight...

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#6. Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.

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#7. Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.

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