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Carmen Laforet Quotes

The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.

The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.

Carmen Laforet
Stupid, Secret, Tragedy
Carmen Laforet, Edith Grossman (2007). “Nada”

When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that's what I thought then.

Carmen Laforet
Left

I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays.

Carmen Laforet
Stories, Decay, Goes On
Carmen Laforet, Edith Grossman (2007). “Nada”

That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.

Carmen Laforet
Night, Profound, Exciting

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

Carmen Laforet
Writing, Narrative, Thread

It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared.

Carmen Laforet
America, Firsts, Scared

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