“These, to be sure, were farfetched hopes, hopes born of despair, but hope is, after all, mostly for the desperate.” — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
“All this had already given us an inkling of what the new regime was about. There was still some hope, however. There is always some hope, especially for cowards. I was one of them, one of those cowardly or hopeful… — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
Trees have a secret life that is only revealed to those willing to climb them. — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
“Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.” — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
Before getting to my mother's house, I would always think of her on the porch or even on the street, sweeping. She had a… — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
“Qué pasa, qué pasa. Y no sentí miedo. Y no sentí tristeza. Y no sentí nada. Porque todo eso lo había sentido tanto que… — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
Leonardo da Vinci was homosexual, so was Michelangelo, Socrates, Shakespeare, and almost every other figure that has formed what we have come to understand… — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
“All the literature of this century is somewhat burdened by the theme of uprootedness.” — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
“Like a lightning bug... Like a lightning bug?... Yes, just like a night lightning bug; because there are day lightning bugs too - even… — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
“These, to be sure, were farfetched hopes, hopes born of despair, but hope is, after all, mostly for the desperate.” — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
“Infinito —y no histórico— es Aquiles por su cólera y su amor, independientemente de que haya o no existido; como infinito será Cristo por… — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
“My sexual activity was all with animals. First there were the hens, then the goats and the sows, and after I had grown up… — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
