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Juan Rulfo Quotes

1917–1986 Mexico

Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno (May 16, 1917–January 7, 1986), was a Mexican writer, screenwriter and photographer.

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Also known as: Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno

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Nothing can last forever; there is no memory, however intense, that does not fade.

It is a difficult thing to grow up knowing that the thing where we can hold on to take root is dead.

In my life there are many silences…In my writing, too.

Learn this, son: in the new nest you have to leave an egg. When I aged you, you will learn to live, you will know that the children are leaving you, that they do not thank you for anything; They eat until your memory.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Juan Rulfo (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.