Quotes from Angélica Gorodischer

A los veinte años yo calculaba, medía, pesaba y planificaba. Casi cuarenta después, era capaz de apretarme la nariz y tirarme a la pileta sin haber averiguado antes si había agua o no. Pero con los ojos abiertos. Me gustaba más a mí misma ahora que a los veinte años. Una de dos, o la experiencia me había dado lo que la sabiduría popular atribuye a la juventud, o la sabiduría popular es una mierda. Me incliné por la segunda posibilidad.

As the wise say, a sensible man looks after his garden, and a coward looks after his money; a just man cares about his city and a crazy man cares about the government; and a wise man studies the thickness of fern-fronds.

It's much more stimulating to be marginal, to act without recognition, than to receive public thanks.

Si una cocinera no huele bien, no es puntual, rápida, prolija alegra y un poco desvergonzada, le había dicho, no sirve para cocinera; puede ser que sepa cocinar pero no sirve para cocinera y tarde o temprano eso se nota.

He was a good emperor. I won't say he is perfect, because he wasn't; no, my friends, no man is perfect and an emperor less than anybody, because he holds power in his hands, and power is as dangerous as an animal not fully tamed, dangerous as acid, sweet and fatal as poisoned honey.

No es tan grande prestigio como cree la gente simple, a cada rato nacen chicos con los ojos abiertos, aunque hay que reconocer que en general vienen al mundo con los ojos sensatamente cerrados.

Time is not successive," he said. "It is concrete, cosntant, simultaneous, and not uniform.

This tent's open to the south and north, and the roads are broad and lead to green lands and black lands and there's plenty to do in the world - sift flour, hammer iron, beat rugs, plow furrows, gossip about the neighbors, cast fishing nets - but what there is to do here is listen.

Maybe you have to be a bit touched to be a ruler, good or bad. For, as the wise say, a sensible man looks after his garden and a coward looks after his money; a just man cares about his city and a crazy man cares about the government; and a wise man studies the thickness of fern-fronds.

All these works of the imaginative inventions unfortunately got into chronicles, which were made into books which everybody respected and believed, principally because they were thick, hard to hold, tedious, and old.

Three days after that Emperor Ferret signed an insane decree: every man who wished to stay at court must be castrated. He was mad, no doubt of it; but the men who preferred mutilation to leaving the court were madder.

Even misfortune has its advantages say the wise. Of course the wise say stupid things, because even wisdom has its foolishness, say I.

Lo peor que tiene la tristeza es que es ciega; y lo peor que tiene la cólera es que ve demasiado.

And I'd add that every good thing has its disadvantages, and the disadvantage of love is precisely that it leaves room for nothing else, not even the prudence of ferrets.

The little boy met with his teachers and studied history, geography, mathematics, music, strategy, politics, dance, falconry, and all the things an emperor has to know so that later on he can do everything that makes him feel that doing it makes him the emperor.

Yes, dangerous: think a little, if you're capable of thought, and you'll see that it's safer to obey a law however stupid it may be than to act freely; because to act freely, unless you're as wicked as certain emperors, is to seek a just law; and if you make a mistake, you've taken the first step towards power, which is what destroys men.

No solo en el este hay provincias, en las del oeste hay montañas, en las del norte hay nieve, en las del sur hay pantanos habitados por bárbaros capaces de matarte por una palabra y de dar la vida por un amigo.

El corazón de un joven tiene más ímpetu para la vida y el amor y para la enfermedad y el odio.

La memoria es frágil y eso es una bendición, el tiempo va perdiendo todo en sus espejos.

Las palabras son hijas de la carne y como tales se pudren si se las guarda encerradas.

Lo peor de la tristeza es que ciega y lo peor de la cólera es que ve demasiado.

Podían haberlo olvidado, solo que él no permitió que lo olvidaran.

the more people there are to think a thought, the uglier and more crippled and deformed the poor thought gets.