Quotes from William Faulkner

pues una de las más felices facultades de la mente humana es la de poder ignorar lo que la conciencia se niega a asimilar

Su voz sonaba tan débil como una voz de muñeca, como sonaría cualquier voz de persona adulta que tuviese que hablar, no en contra de la opinión de sus oyentes, sino en contra de unas mentes llenas de ideas preconcebidas

I guess maybe a talking man hasn't got the time to ever learn much about anything except words.

But those rich town ladies can change their minds. Poor folks cant.

Y son los buenos los que no pueden rechazar la cuenta cuando se la presentan. Por la sencilla razón de que les pueden obligar a pagarla

And so I told myself to take that one. Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

Perhaps he was conscious of somewhere within him the two severed wireends of volition and sentience lying, not touching now, waiting to touch, to knit anew so that he could move.

because it takes an awful lot of character to quit anything when you are losing

qué falso puede ser el más profundo de todos los libros cuando se pretende aplicarlo a la vida.

You will tell me that you have just learned love; I will tell you that you have just learned hope. That's all; hope. The object does not matter, not to the hope, not even to you.

Ils parlaient tous à la fois, et leurs voix insistantes, contradictoires, impatientes, rendaient l'irréel possible, puis probable, puis indubitable, comme font les gens quand leurs désirs sont devenus des mots.

Todo hombre tiene el privilegio de destruirse a sí mismo siempre que no haga daño a nadie, siempre que viva para sí mismo y de sí mismo

Because there just aint nothing justifies the deliberate destruction of what a man has built with his own sweat and stored the fruit of his sweat into.

He fled, not from his past, but to escape his future. It took him twelve years to learn you cannot escape either of them.

era de esa clase de individuos a los que no se les ve a primera vista, aunque estén solos en el fondo de una piscina de cemento vacía

Here lies Horace Benbow in a fading series of small stinking spots on a Mississippi sidewalk

Caddy smelled like trees in the rain.

I've seed de first en de last, Dilsey said. I seed de beginnin, en now I sees de endin.

La sabiduría suprema es tener sueños lo bastante grandes para no perderlos de vista mientras se persiguen

Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file. Although I am fifteen feet ahead of him, anyone watching us from the cotton-house can see Jewel's frayed and broken straw hat a full head above my own.

I made it on the bevel.

It is any man's privilege to destroy himself

He felt like an eagle: hard, sufficient, potent, remorseless, strong. But that passed, though he did not then know that, like the eagle, his own flesh as well as all space was still a cage.

Because women so delicate so mysterious Father said. Delicate equilibrium of periodical filth between two moons balanced. Moons he said full and yellow as harvest moons her hips thighs. Outside outside of them always but. Yellow. Feet soles with walking like. Then know that some man that all those mysterious and imperious concealed. With