F. Sionil José Quotes

• Escribimos desde la vida y lo llamamos literatura, y la literatura vive porque estamos en ella.

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  Life, Art, Writing

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• When you love someone, that love has no limit, no measure, because you know in your deepest being that when that love demands sacrifice, you will give it without question. You will not look for reasons, for justification - the act of giving, of sacrificing, is a natural compulsion, like breathing, and it will, in the end, surprise you because you did it without second thoughts.

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  Sacrifice, Breathing, Giving

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• Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face.

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  Hate, Faces, Loses

  "Mass". Book by F. Sionil José, 1973.

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• No man stops caring as long as he breathes. As long as he has a mind and memory, he will care. This is what separates us from the animals. We have feelings.

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  Memories, Caring, Animal

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• I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for my countrymen, that they may be lifted from apathy and ignorance. I write because of a compulsion to make something out of the nothing that is my own life.

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  Writing, Ignorance, Apathy

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• You will find that our enemies are our own kin. It is they who betray us. So learn this most important lesson-in the end, our worst enemy is ourselves

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  Worst Enemy, Important, Lessons

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• Nos comprometemos desde el día en que nacemos. Si buscamos el pecado original, ahí está: nuestra incapacidad de vivir honestamente con nosotros mismos porque somos humanos, porque estamos encadenados por la costumbre, por las obligaciones y aceptamos el compromiso sólo a la luz de nuestra conciencia, responsables como somos sólo ante nosotros mismos.

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  Light, Compromise, Sin

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• We read because they teach us about people, we can see ourselves in them,in their problems.And by seeing ourselves in them, we clarify ourselves, we explain ourselves to ourselves, so we can live with ourselves.

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  People, Problem, Teach

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• Just because you have so much to give does not mean that they'll all be accepted. There's more to giving than just giving.

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  Mean, Giving, Doe

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• When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.

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  Morning, New Day, Thank God

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• Perhaps, this is what love has always been, whether it is for a woman of for a cause -- the readiness to give and not ask for anything in return, the unquestioning willingness to lose everything, even if that loss is as something as precious as life itself.

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  Loss, Giving, Return

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• We are shallow because we are mayabang, ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

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  Mistake, Humility, Ego

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• The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who make this poverty a deadening reality. The obscenities in this country are the places of the rich, the new hotels made at the expense of the people, the hospitals where the poor die when they get sick because they don't have the money either for medicines or services. It is only in this light that the real definition of obscenity should be made.

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  Girl, Country, Real

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• I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

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  Bored, Listening, Want

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• Nuestra apreciación del arte popular reforzará nuestras identidades, nuestro orgullo de pertenecer a una comunidad. Las personas formadas en el uso creativo de sus manos adquieren pronto habilidades, una artesanía excelente que será la medida más importante de lo bien que podamos industrializarnos.

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  Gratitud, aprecio, arte

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• I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.

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  Justice, Wish, Honest

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• La vida es santa y lo es para todos nosotros. El designio de Dios, ni yo mismo puedo entenderlo ni nunca lo entenderé, pero sí sé que lo que estamos viviendo ahora pasará y al final todos seremos hermanos, no sólo de sangre, como somos, sino hermanos en espíritu. Ni tú ni yo podemos cambiar el mundo o la naturaleza humana y sólo podemos aspirar a cambiar actitudes - y tal vez enseñar a los que tienen tanto a dar una parte de sus bendiciones a los que tienen menos.

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  Brother, Attitude, Blessing

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• ‎Sometimes we have to lie so that we do not needlessly hurt others. The important thing is that we are honest with ourselves. That we know how to bend without breaking ourselves. -Crepusculo Lepidoptera

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  Hurt, Lying, Important

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• Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals, too, because the foul and the good all die. The past, the present, and the future-what escape is there from these? None-and yet sometimes we are life's happy victims.

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  Suicide, Past, Life Is

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• I believe in humanity - not just you or Mother, but all mankind. Do I sound like a preacher or a cheap politician making a pretty speech? This is not what I intend to do... I believe in life, that it is sweet and that, for all its occasional bitterness, we-man, that is-are headed toward something better - fulfillment. There is much shame, however, and so much hypocrisy around us and these inhibit our fulfillment as human beings.

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  Mother, Sweet, Believe

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• November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape.

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  Christmas, Country, Weather

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• The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japans brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.

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  Powerful, Unique, Japan

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• Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

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  Humanity, Egoism, Courses

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• Una interpretación virtuosa. La biografía de Scott Thompson sobre el soldado estadista Fidel V. Ramos ilustra la fascinante y compleja geografía de la política filipina y su relación con el hegemón estadounidense. Una erudición de primera y una escritura igualmente de primera.

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  Writing, Soldier, Biographies

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• En los años 50, viajaba solo por todo Mindanao, Basilan, hasta Tawi-Tawi, sólo con una cámara y un cuaderno. Siempre me alojaba en casas de moros.

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  Notebook, House, Cameras

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