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La vida es un relámpago entre dos largas noches.

Life is a flash of lightening between two long nights.

Amado Nervo

Hay dos clases de virtudes: las que hacen ganar el cielo y las que hacen ganar la tierra.

There are two kinds of virtues: those that win us heaven and those that win us the earth.

Noel Clarasó

La esperanza le pertenece a la vida, es la vida misma defendiéndose.

Hope is essential to life, it is life itself defending itself.

Lo que llamamos absurdo es nuestra ignorancia.

That which we say is absurd is our own ignorance.

Julio Cortázar

Escribir es agregar un cuarto a la casa de la vida.

To write is to add a room to the house of life.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Lleva tiempo llegar a ser joven.

It takes time to get to be young.

Pablo Picasso

Sin la mujer, la vida es pura prosa.

Without womanhood, life is mere prose.

Rubén Darío

Un pueblo sin literatura es un pueblo mudo.

A people without literature is a mute people.

Miguel Delibes

El éxito y el fracaso son dos impostores.

Success and failure are two impostors.

Jorge Luis Borges

La vida es como un arca inmensa llena de posibilidades.

Life is like an inmense ark full of possibilities.

Veo al final de mi rudo camino, que yo fui el arquitecto de mi propio destino.

I see at the end of my rough journey, that I've been the architect of my own destiny.

Amado Nervo

Asusta pensar que acaso las admiraciones más sinceras que tenemos son las de las personas que no nos han comprendido.

It's frightening to think that maybe the people that admire us most sincerely are those that have not understood us.

Benito Pérez Galdós

La democracia y la felicidad no producen gran literatura.

Democracy and happiness don't produce great literature.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado.

I'd rather die standing than live forever on my knees.

Dolores Ibarruri

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