“All live and die believing that they have known love, thinking it is a common thing, because they confuse it with animal satisfaction; but love is a privilege, love is a lottery of fate, like wealth, like beauty, which only a small minority enjoy....””
Quotes by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
“Poor Humanity, crazed with fear, was fleeing in all directions on hearing the thundering pace of the Plague, War, Hunger and Death.””
“He would roam about the world carrying his recollections with him, and perhaps some day he would come to forget them, for one can live only by forgetting; but when his grief should dissolve with the years he would be left an empty man, like a smiling automaton, incapable of any affections other than meterial ones.””
“-Donde un hombre hace su fortuna y constituye su familia, allí está su verdadera patria””
“¡Adiós!... Y a la melancólica despedida se una la incertidumbre del porvenir, la sospecha de que no volveré a contemplar estos lugares amados, de que las circunstancias de mi vida harán que ésta se extinga antes de poder cumplir mi deseo””
“Dígale a Su Santidad que allá no hay partidos democráticos ni nada de esas pestes modernas que como él dice hacen la infelicidad de los pueblos. Los reyes velan por nuestra dicha; los sacerdotes son venedarísimos; todos los españoles somos católicos...””
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was a prominent Spanish novelist, journalist, and politician whose literary career spanned various genres, including historical fiction, adventure, and social commentary. Born in...