Camilo Jose Cela famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
-- Camilo Jose Cela

#Men #Two #Kind
Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
-- Camilo Jose Cela

#Ideas #Purpose #Paper
When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
-- Camilo Jose Cela

#Cards #Debt
Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
-- Camilo Jose Cela

#Hygiene #Literature
I am not, sir, a bad person, though in truth I am not lacking in reasons for being one. [Sp., Yo, senor, no soy malo, aunque no me faltarian motivos para serlo.]
-- Camilo Jose Cela

#Book #Soy #Reason

We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.
Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.
Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.
There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.
Honestly, I've always had difficulty relaxing, unwinding and going to bed - that kind of stuff.
I think you kind of have to put yourself out there.

Camilo Jose Cela famous quotes

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