256 Quotes by Argentinian authors

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Argentinian quotes braid streetwise wit with a tender melancholy, mixing lunfardo bite and philosophical detours. Voices from cafés and barrios sit beside gaucho stoicism and the labyrinths of Borges, where fate, memory, and identity circle like a bandoneón line. Expect self-deprecating humor, fierce dignity, and an appetite for rebellion honed by crisis. Between the ritual of mate and the hush of the pampas, words become both tango step and knife’s glint: intimate, restless, and stubbornly hopeful.

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"Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun"

Evita Peron, Statesman

"It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success"

Lionel Messi, Athlete

Small: Lionel Messi

"The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

Small: Jorge Luis Borges

"I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting"

Che Guevara, Revolutionary

Small: Che Guevara

"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

Small: Jorge Luis Borges

"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

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"Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms"

Che Guevara, Revolutionary

Small: Che Guevara

"You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it"

Lionel Messi, Athlete

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"I am black or white, I'll never be grey in my life"

Diego Maradona, Athlete

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"If something's important to you, you make time for it"

Mia Maestro, Actress

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"I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows"

Evita Peron, Statesman

"When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas"

Evita Peron, Statesman

"We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few"

Nestor Kirchner, Statesman

"The original is unfaithful to the translation"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

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"Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes"

Che Guevara, Revolutionary

Small: Che Guevara

"I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man"

Che Guevara, Revolutionary

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"Democracy is an abuse of statistics"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

Small: Jorge Luis Borges

"Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel"

Che Guevara, Revolutionary

Small: Che Guevara

"God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy"

Pope Francis, Pope

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"I will return and I will be a million"

Evita Peron, Statesman

"I will come again, and I will be millions"

Evita Peron, Statesman

"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

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"To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

Small: Jorge Luis Borges

"Silence is argument carried out by other means"

Che Guevara, Revolutionary

Small: Che Guevara

"When you win, you don't get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far"

Diego Maradona, Athlete

Small: Diego Maradona

"I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy"

Diego Maradona, Athlete

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"When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be"

Gabriela Sabatini, Athlete

"What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?"

Julio Cortazar, Writer

"I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with"

Evita Peron, Statesman

"Time is my greatest enemy"

Evita Peron, Statesman

"I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go "

Evita Peron, Statesman

"One cannot accomplish anything without fanatacism"

Evita Peron, Statesman

"To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

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"Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

Small: Jorge Luis Borges

"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

Small: Jorge Luis Borges

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

Small: Jorge Luis Borges

"Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

Small: Jorge Luis Borges

"Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing"

Lionel Messi, Athlete

Small: Lionel Messi

"I'm alive and I want to keep living"

Diego Maradona, Athlete

Small: Diego Maradona

"All the people that criticised me should eat their words"

Diego Maradona, Athlete

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