Fernando Sabino

Fernando Sabino

Fernando Sabino (October 12, 1923 – October 11, 2004) was a Brazilian writer and journalist.

Quotes

• Dante would not have forgotten: they say that when Dante was a boy, he was asked: Dante what is the best food? to test his memory. Eggs, replied Dante. Years later, when Dante was a grown man, he was asked only: how? and Dante replied: fried. p30

• Gide says the hell of this life is that between a hundred paths we have to choose only one, and live with nostalgia for the other ninety nine. p51

• Conmigo se hay vuelto loca toda la anatomía. ¡Soy todo corazón! p64

• writers without books, poets without verses, painters without pictures p198

• the circle of politicians which surrounded him--flatterers, eventual profiteers, changed ideas and convictions like changing a shirt, followed the expediency of the moment. p245

• The other passengers gazed at each other and there was established that silent solidarity of those who secretly hope to God that the plane will not fall. p264

• Everything one sees is merely a projection of what one does not see, its true nature and substance. p315

• I was going to tell you something very important. But it is so important I'd rather not say it. Only that which is not said is sincere... Only silence is sincere. The silence of someone who is sleeping, for example. How sincere is a sleeper! Sincere as a flower... It is in sleeping that everyone reveals themselves, because of the silence.
  • O encontro marcado [A Time to Meet] (1956), trans. John Procter, p. 210

• “My son, everything works out in the end. If it didn’t, it’s because it hasn’t come to an end yet.”
  • From a conversation with his father in "The Checkerboard"