Silvina Ocampo it was in one of the most recognized and prestigious writers, narrators and poets in Argentina. It was her sister Victoria Ocampo who introduced her to the literary world and together they achieved international prestige.
His first book was forgotten journey and then he wrote Homeland enumerationMetric spaces, Desperate love poems, Names AND Small anthology.
She is considered one of the writers most important of the 20th century in Argentina. You have won, among others, the Municipal Literature Prize, the National Poetry Prize, the SADE Grand Prize of Honor and the Konex Prize.
The best phrases of Silvina Ocampo
- “I will not live except to seek you and I will go through the pain to adore you.”
- “Prisoner, lost, always a slave to your happiness.”
- “In the most tragic moments I laugh or light a cigarette and lie down on the floor and look at you as if nothing bad will happen.”
- “The only thing we know is what surprises us: that everything happens, as if it hadn’t happened.”
- “I would die for you. Would you live for me?”
- “Love and death are similar: when we are lost we turn to them.”
- “I would sleep my whole life to make a dream come true.”
- “Every disguise is repugnant to the wearer.”
- “And I’m always afraid because I’m brave.”
- “I don’t know myself. I know others, those who know me.”
- “Lies cause fear and fear causes lies.”
- “Music is made up of countless memories that force us to be excessively unfair to it.”
- “I wish I had been born in another time, as long as I had found you in it.”
- “I dreamed of becoming old to have time for many things.”
Source: Clarin
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