Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Carmen Laforet

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Spanish author Carmen Laforet.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Carmen Laforet was a Spanish author who wrote in the period after the Spanish Civil War. An important European writer, her works contributed to the school of Existentialist Literature and her first novel Nada continued the Spanish tremendismo literary style begun by Camilo José Cela with his novel, La familia de Pascual Duarte. She received the Premio Nadal in 1944.

Spanish - Author | September 6, 1921 - February 28, 2004

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I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

Carmen Laforet

It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared.

Carmen Laforet

When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that's what I thought then.

Carmen Laforet

That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.

Carmen Laforet

I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays.

Carmen Laforet

The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.

Carmen Laforet