Animals Quote by Reinaldo Arenas

Trees have a secret life that is only revealed to those willing to climb them.

— Reinaldo Arenas

If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living.

— Reinaldo Arenas

“Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.”

— Reinaldo Arenas

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

“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

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

“All the literature of this century is somewhat burdened by the theme of uprootedness.”

— Reinaldo Arenas

“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

There’s just one place to live – the impossible.

— Reinaldo Arenas

“These, to be sure, were farfetched hopes, hopes born of despair, but hope is, after all, mostly for the desperate.”

— Reinaldo Arenas

“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

“All this had already given us an inkling of what the new regime was about. There was still some hope, however. There is always…

— Reinaldo Arenas