Arturo Pérez-Reverte is a writer and journalist of Spanish origin, whose work has been awarded and recognized worldwide, earning him a place within the Royal Spanish Academy. He began his career as a war news correspondent in nations in armed conflict, but has also been recognized for his works: 'The adventures of Captain Alatriste' and 'The Falcó trilogy.'
Best quotes and phrases by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
As a way of paying homage to his work and his work in the journalistic and literary field, we have brought a compilation with the best phrases of Arturo Pérez-Reverte.
one. Men often believe that beautiful women's eyes have something inside, and they are often wrong.
Outer beauty is not always in tune with inner beauty.
2. It is a serious mistake to look at the past with the eyes of the present.
The past has its own experiences.
3. Everyone has the devil they deserve.
All of us have something dark to hide.
4. No matter how much you win, in the end there is always someone who defeats you, there is always a Rocroi, no matter how much you win, there is always an iceberg waiting for the Titanic.
Failure is part of life.
5. History shows that reason belongs to those who have the courage to support it.
You always have to fight when you're right.
6. The pleasantness of the places where one stops depends, especially, on the people who work there and give it character.
It's nice to meet charming and interesting people.
7. He was not the most honest man nor the most pious, but he was a brave man.
Courage in a person is worthy of praise.
8. Books are doors that lead you to the street, said Patricia. With them you learn, educate yourself, travel, dream, imagine, live other lives and multiply yours by a thousand.
Reading becomes an adventure without limits.
9. She was crossing the street when she realized that she didn't mind getting to the other side.
Life begins to make sense when we already have the courage to move on.
10. In the face of infamy it is vile to remain silent, and it is worthy to rebel and fight it.
It is great to fight and combat some offense or grievance.
eleven. Chance has a very bad mood and a lot of desire for a joke.
The defeat or the triumph.
12. There are people who dream and stay put, and people who dream and make their dreams come true, or try to.
It is not enough to dream, but to fight to make it come true.
13. There was no choice but to play the game with the nine cards that mocking fate had just put in his hands, even if they were lousy.
No matter what circumstances life throws at us, we always have to fight.
14. We humans have protected ourselves from that coldness, surrounded ourselves with a series of buffers, trying to survive physically and intellectually in the face of the fact that we are insects under the boot of the gods.
Man is great before God, although he seeks a way to make himself smaller
fifteen. It's okay, it's been millions of years since human beings died.
Death is the destiny that every human being has, no one escapes it.
16. It's a good reminder: remember that you are mortal.
Sometimes we live riotously because we believe we are immortal.
17. I believe in old stones and in dark paintings and in reddish sunsets over the sea. And in young couples who kiss. And I believe in some other things that I will never tell you about.
Life is full of beautiful things.
18. Rebellion is the only refuge worthy of intelligence against imbecility.
It's good to reveal ourselves to something we don't like.
19. The only possible salvation lies in two words: education and culture.
Knowledge is fundamental, it makes the smallest great.
twenty. All inquisitions, without distinction, are based on the principle of denunciation and social cowardice.
Accusation and fear contribute to infamous acts.
twenty-one. Without culture (I mean real culture, education and lucidity) there is no possible future.
Without studies there is no future.
22. I always mistrust those who don't have (or say they don't have) enemies. Walking is choosing. Choosing is risking. To risk is to fight.
There are always people around us who don't like us.
23. The language is based on many macho patterns and must change.
In the world there are many ideas that harm women since society is very macho.
24. The old man is not contemporary because he is ridiculous or clowning, but on the other hand you have an advantage: a long life, an experience, a lucidity that the years give you... a look.
Old age has its charm.
25. Life is very treacherous.
Life is full of ups and downs.
26. I write novels to recreate life in my own way.
The stories that novels tell are the realities of the writer.
27. Always be suspicious of someone who is a reader of only one book.
Anyone who has only one way of thinking is worthy of suspicion.
28. The heroism of others always moves a lot.
Fighting atrocity is a matter of daring.
29. I believe that Spain should not ask for forgiveness. Why? It is another Spain.
Asking for forgiveness is an action that very few do.
30. A terrible world and a beautiful world were mixed. It's a story we can be horrified and proud of at the same time.
The world is a place where good and bad live together.
31. You never wondered how people without money see the world, right?... How they open their eyes every morning and face life.
While we alth can drive you crazy, it also helps you have a better life.
32. Paths that, despite the advice of the most elementary prudence, it is impossible to avoid when they are offered to view. When they tempt with answers to questions never asked before.
Even though they warn us of something, we never listen.
33. Running away only serves to die tired and without honor.
Fleeing from problems is not the solution.
3. 4. At every moment the counter is reset to zero, and the human being has a wonderful gift: the opportunity to start, and try again.
Every day, every moment, is a new opportunity to start.
35. It is doubt that keeps people young. Certainty is like an evil virus. It infects you with old age.
Uncertainty makes things more exciting.
36. Heroes pass by us without us noticing them. They sit on the terrace of a bar, hold on to the subway bar or queue at the unemployment office, like so many.
There are always heroes we don't look at.
37. In a world where horror is sold as art, where art is already born with the pretense of being photographed, where living with images of suffering has no relation to conscience or compassion, war photos are useless.
Suffering, dismay and fear, unfortunately, live in this world.
38. We take photos, not in order to remember, but to complete them later with the rest of our lives. That is why there are photos that are correct and photos that are not.
We always want to live in the past.
39. Knowing History, its mechanisms of analysis, of understanding, gives you the wisdom of the board.
Knowing everything that surrounds us helps us to better understand life.
40. I believe in several things.
People put our belief in several things at once.
41. There are people determined to build literary works, aqueducts or cathedrals with the intention of surviving. You are wrong.
Our memory lasts only when there are people who miss us.
42. No one who walks the world and has really seen the human being in extreme situations can believe that the human being is homogeneous, white or black..
Man knows how to resist any situation, no matter how difficult it may be.
43. When you have a certain trajectory, your readers, your listeners and viewers, the enemy is something else.
There are always times when happiness is not complete.
44. I have no ideology, my friend. What I have is a library.
Books are the best teachers.
Four. Five. A library is not a set of books read, but a company, a shelter and a life project.
Knowledge is acquired through books.
46. Spanish is historically a son of a bitch.
A criticism of the actions of some Spaniards.
47. Good enemies keep you awake.
It is good to be alert at all times.
48. Latin America in general hurts me and Mexico is one more manifestation of what Colombia or Venezuela is.
Latin America is going through difficult times and Arturo Pérez is aware of it.
49. Every era has its moment. And your people. Mine ended a long time ago, and I hate long endings. They make you lose your manners.
Everything has its time.
fifty. In addition to caution and reserve, caution means cunning.
You have to be perceptive at all times.
51. But time passes, and lasts. And there is a moment when everything stagnates. The days stop counting, hope fades…
There are days when everything looks black.
52. In the end one is always defeated.
Defeat is part of each one of us.
53. With men of integrity they can perhaps win battles, but not govern kingdoms.
Refers to the corrupt governments that exist in the world.
54. Whoever kills from afar takes no lesson from life or death.
Many are forced to shoot to death in wars. Not because they want to.
55. Dead gods, religion and Christianity, we have a new religion. We have exchanged humanism for humanitarianism, we are philanthropists.
The capacity of human beings to feel affection, understanding and solidarity towards others. That is true religion.
56. An enlightened stupid can be just as dangerous as a redneck whose intelligence is useless to stop being one.
A person who thinks they are superior because they have some knowledge, deep down is not intelligent at all.
57. Without History there is no possibility of attacking the present. You cannot move through the present, you cannot act on it.
We all have a story that precedes us.
58. Political opportunism already occurs in the Constitution of Cádiz. It is heartbreaking to see how Spanish repeats mistakes, how it takes what is put in front of it.
Man always stumbles over the same stone.
59. I was born in Cartagena, a city on the shores of the Mediterranean with more than three thousand years of history. And I was born in a library, my grandfather's, where the stories of that sea are.
About his childhood and his first approach to the world of literature.
60. Independence in the countries of Latin America was a great fraud of which the most disadvantaged classes were victims.
In war, the victims lose the most.
61. It is very easy to be a hero surrounded by people who acclaim you, what is difficult is to be one in solitude, when the only witness is courage, honor, valor.
Recognition from others is nice, but sometimes ours is not.
62. I always recommend waiting.
Waiting is tiring and annoying, but it is the best option.
63. I have seen people who protected me in a war in the morning and burned houses and raped women at night.
There are people who act one way when they are next to us and another way when we turn our backs.
64. Everything is simpler: I write, I have a library and I browse. That is my life, it is enough for me and I have plenty. Pretending universalities, transcendences, recognitions…
It is important that we really like what we do.
65. I believe in those who all their lives try to think like Greeks, fight like Trojans and die like Romans.
Those who live their lives to the fullest are the ones worth knowing.
66. Whoever kills from a distance does not test his arm or his heart or his conscience, nor does he create ghosts that will later come at night, punctual to the appointment, for the rest of his life.
There are many ways to kill.
67. As long as there is death, she pointed out, there is hope. - Is it another date? - It's a bad joke.
Death is part of life.
68. Images that time puts in their place, attributing their authentic meaning to some, and denying others that fade on their own, as if the colors were erased with time.
Memory is not eternal.
69. Here there were no guillotines for bishops, kings and aristocrats; here they have always been shot and in the wrong way.
History shows that there was incredible impunity for the culprits in high places and the religious.
70. Which proves a certainty of the old reporter: the dead are undoubtedly dead; but the living are not always what they seem.
Things always have two faces.
71. I believe that in today's world the only possible freedom is indifference. That is why I will continue to live with my saber and my horse.
Unfortunately, people's indifference is increasing.
72. Apathy and resignation are the national words.
Indifference and conformism are very frequent terms that people currently apply.
73. There are instincts, curiosities that sometimes lose men and other times they make the ball fall into the appropriate square of the roulette wheel.
A curious man can either fall or succeed.
74. Forget what once was with a good loser's face, assume what is now, and accept what can never be.
Forget, assume and accept are words that we must include in our vocabulary.
75. I feel more at home than if I travel to Paris, for example, I'm not jingoistic at all, but for me, my nation is my language and my culture.
We must be proud of our nationality.
76. On that Sad Night, a world dies and another is born, that new America is born of brutality, since it is a bloody episode on both sides. It is the dawn of a new world, with good and bad.
Every day brings pleasant moments and others not so much.
77. The problem with words is that, once thrown out, they cannot return to their owner on their own. So that sometimes they turn them into the point of a steel.
Be careful what you say, they are double-edged swords.
78. The man…, he thinks he is the lover of a woman, when in fact he is only her witness.
Man is just a doll in the hands of a woman.
79. I believe that defeat is something inherent to the human condition, to the fact of living and fighting.
Living and fighting every moment is what makes life interesting.
80. Each one manages as best they can to keep horror, sadness and loneliness at bay. I do it with my books.
Everyone knows how to deal with their fears, melancholy and loneliness.
81. We are depriving the young of the experience of the old…we tend to push him away.
The elderly have a host of anecdotes that children should listen to.
82. I work with language and I need the language to be clean, practical.
We must express ourselves correctly, that is a sign of education.
83. Not having (officially) enemies requires a lot of suction power. That also has its merit.
Oddly enough, there are people who don't have enemies, that's worthy of admiration.
84. Uneducated peoples, especially those deliberately uneducated, have a troubled future.
A people without education have a precarious course.
85. Because the bad is not always the fan. Worse are those who are not, but want to ingratiate themselves with him.
Fanaticism for something, if it is not well managed, can be negative.
86. The most effective ally of the scoundrels have always been the swarms of fools who do their dirty work. That make their work easier.
Don't do someone else's job.
87. We do not accept any virtue in the adversary, nor any defect in those of our side.
It is very difficult for us to recognize any quality in others, but we are focused on recognizing their mistakes.
88. When an academic dies, the rest move up one perch until they reach the last one.
We are all going to die, that is the law of life.
89. I have seen many libraries burn, many cities bombed, and I have seen entire worlds go to hell with the push of a button. This has freed me from uncertainties and has given me security.
War has never produced anything good.
90. Even if it takes centuries, it will come down and take everything with it. So, every time we do something, it implies disaster.
The world is subjected to major disasters.
91. What a great paradox: one of those assurances is that it doesn't matter.
Being sure of something is not always the truth.
92. That's all… Then life spins its Russian roulette wheel. No one is responsible for anything.
Life is a continuous roulette wheel, we don't know where it will stop.
93. Regarding dogs, no one who has not lived with them will ever know, in depth, how far the words generosity, company and loy alty go.
Showing your love and respect for dogs.
94. Proven for centuries: it is not tyrants who make slaves, but slaves who make tyrants.
If you let others think and act for you, then you will always be a slave.
95. There are times when one becomes ashamed of being a man.
There are situations that make us ashamed of being who we are.
96. It's nice to be happy, she thought. And know it while you are.
Recognizing our happiness helps us live better with ourselves.
97. No one should leave without leaving a burning Troy behind them.
You have to solve problems, there is always a solution.
98. I believe that we all die alone and blind. And that to do it with dignity requires long training.
No one escapes death. Sooner or later it arrives.
99. War is the normal state of man.
Human beings are in constant war.
100. Girls who grow up fast have sad eyes.
You have to live each stage of life to the fullest.