Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Reinaldo Arenas

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Cuban novelist Reinaldo Arenas.

Last updated on December 20, 2024.

Reinaldo Arenas was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright known as a vocal critic of Fidel Castro, the Cuban Revolution, and the Cuban government. His memoir of the Cuban dissident movement and of being a political prisoner, Before Night Falls, was dictated after his escape to the United States during the 1980 Mariel boatlift and published posthumously, after Arenas, who was dying of AIDS, committed suicide with an overdose of pills.

Cuban - Novelist | July 16, 1943 - December 7, 1990

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

Reinaldo Arenas

I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living

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

To discover a city is in itself a unique event, but when we have the privilege of sharing it with friends most dear to us, it becomes a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

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 light way of sweeping, as if removing the dirt were not as important as moving the broom over the ground. Her way of sweeping was symbolic; so airy, so fragile, with a broom she tried to sweep away all the horrors, all the loneliness, all the misery that had accompanied her all her life.

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 as beauty.

Reinaldo Arenas

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Reinaldo Arenas

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