Ernesto Sabato Quotes

#1. Criminals are the most decent and least offensive people among us.

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#2. The first time I passed through the country (Switzerland) I had the impression it was swept down with a broom from one end to the other every morning by housewives who dumped all the dirt in Italy.

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#3. On a tiny planet that has been racing toward oblivion for millions of years, we are born amid sorrow; we grow, we struggle, we grow ill, we suffer, we make others suffer, we cry out, we die, others die, and new beings are born to begin the senseless comedy all over again.

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#4. How can you have faith in human nature when you think that a sewer and certain moments of Schumann or Brahms are connected by secret, shadowy, subterranean passageways.

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#5. Greatness is so aggressive, so dramatic! Don't you think it is almost bad manners?

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#6. The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.

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#7. Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?

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#8. Only those capable of envisaging utopia will be fit for the decisive battle, that of recovering all the humanity we have lost.

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#9. Vanity is found in the most unlikely places: in combination with kindness, and selflessness, and generosity.

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