Juan Gabriel Vásquez Quotes

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Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others.

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Her face was like a party that everyone had left.

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

I read somewhere that a man should tell the story of his life at the age of forty, and this deadline is fast approaching as I write these lines, only a few short weeks remain before this ominous birthday arrives.

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

The nostalgia for things that weren't yet lost...

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Remembering tires a person out. this is something they don't teach us. Exercising one's memory is an exhausting activity. It draws our energy and wears down our muscles.

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.

Juan Gabriel Vásquez