Happiness Quote by Alejandro Zambra

“What greater happiness than to know that move exists, that I can watch it many times, that I can watch it always.” quote by Alejandro Zambra — Download Open image

““What greater happiness than to know that move exists, that I can watch it many times, that I can watch it always.””

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“The novel belongs to our parents, I thought then, I think now. That's what we grew up believing, that the novel belonged to our parents. We cursed them, and also took refuge in their shadows, relieved. While the adults killed or were killed, we drew pictures in a corner. While the country was falling to pieces, we were learning to…

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Everything has been said and everything has been done, but you still feel like you are looking for something.

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“Julián didn’t want to regain his love, since he had stopped loving her a long time ago. He had stopped loving her one second before he began loving her. It sounds strange, but that’s how he feels: instead of loving Karla, he had loved the possibility of love, and then the imminence of love. He had loved the idea of…

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I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do.

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“Parents abandon their children. Children abandon their parents. Parents protect or forsake, but they always forsake. Children stay or go but they always go. And it's all unfair, especially the sound of the words, because language is pleasing and confusing, because ultimately we would like to sing or at least whistle a tune, to walk alongside the stage whistling a…

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