Ricardo Güiraldes Quotes

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If you're really a gaucho, you can't change, because wherever you go, you'll go with your soul leading the way.

Ricardo Güiraldes

I dreamt they dropped me in a hole, like an ironwood post, and stamped down the earth till my ribs cracked and I couldn't breathe.

Ricardo Güiraldes

The brutal deed that I had witnessed sent me into deep thought. That a man as calm and happy as Antenor had seen himself obliged first to fight, then to kill, was truly frightening to me. Is one the owner of nothing of one's own self, then? An unexpected encounter has the capability of presenting itself like that, as destiny, and destroy one's way of life?

Ricardo Güiraldes

Five years had passed without our separating for even one single day during our strenuous life as herders. Five years of that make a gaucho of a boy when he has the good luck to live those years alongside a man like the one I called my godfather.

Ricardo Güiraldes

Ricardo Güiraldes

Ricardo Güiraldes

Born: February 13, 1886

Died: October 8, 1927 (aged 41)

Bio: Ricardo Güiraldes was an Argentine novelist and poet, one of the most significant Argentine writers of his era, particularly known for his 1926 novel Don Segundo Sombra, set amongst the gauchos.

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