Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Ernesto Sabato

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a novelist Ernesto Sabato.
Last updated on November 22, 2024.
Ernesto Sabato

Ernesto Sabato was an Argentine novelist, essayist, painter and physicist. According to the BBC he "won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature" and "became very influential in the literary world throughout Latin America". Upon his death El País dubbed him the "last classic writer in Argentine literature".

Novelist | June 24, 1911 - April 30, 2011
Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars? — © Ernesto Sabato
Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?
The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.
The first time I passed through the country (Switzerland) I had the impression it was swept down with a broom from one end to the other every morning by housewives who dumped all the dirt in Italy.
Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions. And society, without realizing it respects and even exalts him, albeit with a kind of jealousy, fear and even repulsion, since few people want to discover the horrors that lurk in the depths of their souls. This is the highest mission of great literature, and there is no other.
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