Reinaldo Arenas Quotes

• 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

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  Favors, Want, Way

  Reinaldo Arenas (2010). “Before Night Falls”, p.9, Profile Books

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• Trees have a secret life that is only revealed to those willing to climb them.

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  Tree, Secret, Willing

  Reinaldo Arenas (2010). “Before Night Falls”, p.5, Profile Books

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• 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.

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  Mother, Loneliness, Moving

  Reinaldo Arenas (2010). “Before Night Falls”, p.142, Profile Books

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• If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living.

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  Want, Way, No Point

  Reinaldo Arenas (2010). “Before Night Falls”, p.9, Profile Books

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

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  Impossible, Places To Live, Just One

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• 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.

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  Figures, Homosexual, Leonardo

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• 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.

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  Unique, Cities, Events

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