De Lagrimas Y De Santos

Finished! I have 3 full pages full of favourite quotes but here’s a little selection (pardon my translation): - Jesus was lucky to die young. Had he died at 60, instead of carrying a cross he would have written memoirs. And today we would be blowing dust off the Son of God, void of happiness. - It’s only possible to think while horizontal. - I often wonder why did saints establish the cult of angels when they compete with their glory? It must have been a political mistake, a surprising lack of tactics. - Some people still wonder whether life makes sense or not. In reality, it boils down to whether it’s bearable or not. - All the philosophers are not worth as much as one saint. - Every woman who sheds tears of love in solitude is a saint. - If music disappeared, all the earthly joys and sorrows wouldn’t be able to produce a single tear of essence that comes from music. - The most sceptical Russian and Spaniard are more obsessed with God than any German metaphysicist. - The world is made of owners and beggars. Everyone in between is a poor. Beggars are reactionaries, just like the owners. They don’t want change or progress. Only the poor make an effort and carry the burden. Without them, there would be no society. Because the owners are animals and the beggars want nothing. - When I’m sad, it’s as if my bodily tissue begins to think. Poison is nested in every cell. — “Reading” might be a rather grandiose term for microdosing a paragraph every couple of days In English it’s “Tears and Saints”, in Croatian “Suze i sveci” Originally published in 1937 but could only find this version in database