Cesar Vallejo Quotes

#1. Well, on the day I was born God was sick, gravely.

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#2. The pure and poorly adapted one who crashed against the world of fakes and cheats.

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#3. And this passion, like bad kerosene, barely burns.

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#4. Intellectuals are rebels, not revolutionaries.

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#5. Mechanics is a means or discipline for the realization of life, but not life itself. It ought to carry us to life itself.

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#6. This afternoon it rains as never before; and I
don't feel like staying alive, heart. This afternoon is pleasant. Why shouldn't it be?
It is wearing grace and pain; it is dressed like a woman.

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#7. Absurdity, only you are pure.

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#8. Oh always, never to find the never of so much always.

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#9. The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.

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#10. Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it weighs and sinks into itself. The heavier the spirit, the higher and farther it flies.

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#11. There are desires to return, to love, to not disappear,
and there are desires to die, fought by two
opposing waters that have never isthmused.

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