Juan Rulfo

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Because to write, one must truly suffer.
- Juan Rulfo
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I am talking about misery and all of its implications.
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Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.
- Juan Rulfo
Collection: Memories
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Every author that creates is a liar;literature is a lie,but from that lie, a recreation of reality is born. Therefore, recreating reality is one of the fundaments of creation.
- Juan Rulfo
Collection: Liars
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There you'll find the place I love most in the world. The place where I grew thin from dreaming. My village, rising from the plain. Shaded with trees and leaves like a piggy bank filled with memories. You'll see why a person would want to live there forever. Dawn, morning, mid-day, night: all the same, except for the changes in the air. The air changes the color of things there. And life whirs by as quiet as a murmur...the pure murmuring of life.
- Juan Rulfo
Collection: Dream
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No one knows better than I do how far heaven is, but I also know all the shortcuts. The secret is to die, when you want to, and not when He proposes. Or else to force Him to take you before your time.
- Juan Rulfo
Collection: Heaven
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There was no air; only the dead, still night fired by the dog days of August. Not a breath. I had to suck in the same air I exhaled, cupping it in my hands before it escaped. I felt it, in and out, less each timeā€¦until it was so thin it slipped through my fingers forever. I mean, forever.
- Juan Rulfo
Collection: Dog