Citas de Al Álvarez

• Ponerse en una situación en la que no necesariamente se puede recuperar un error, en la que la vida que se pierde puede ser la propia, despeja la cabeza maravillosamente. Devuelve la proporción a los problemas domésticos y añade un elemento de seriedad a tu vida monótona y rutinaria. Tal vez ésta sea una de las razones por las que la escalada se ha vuelto cada vez más dura a medida que la sociedad se ha vuelto cada vez más, y desproporcionadamente, mimosa.

  Al Alvarez

  Mistake, Climbing, Routine Life

  "Our enduring desire to court deadly risk" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012.

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• No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.

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  Hombres

  Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.116, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at least a partial perversion of his instincts and insights. He pays for his social ease with what used to be called his soul - his discriminations, his uniqueness, his psychic energy, his self.

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  Self, Media, Psychics

  Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.274, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

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  Men, Water, Despair

  Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.118, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• En [La Nueva Poesía] había atacado la nerviosa preferencia de los poetas británicos por la gentilidad por encima de todo, y su evasión de las verdades incómodas y destructivas tanto de la vida interior como del tiempo presente.

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  Nervous, Poet, British

  Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause and attend: the heart beats in your chest; outside, the trees are thick with new leaves, a swallow dips over them, the light moves, people are going about their business.

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  Suicide, Moving, Heart

  Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.152, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A pesar de los cientos de intentos, el terror policial y los campos de concentración han resultado ser temas más o menos imposibles para el artista; puesto que lo que ocurría en ellos estaba más allá de la imaginación, por lo tanto también estaba más allá del arte y de todos aquellos valores humanos en los que tradicionalmente se basa el arte.

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  Art, Imagination, Police

  Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.271, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.

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  Art, Artist, Vulnerable

  Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.259, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• El divorcio transforma la costumbre en drama.

  Al Alvarez

  Drama, Divorce, Habit

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• It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.

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  Insulting, Insult, Easy

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• The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.

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  Art, Real, Resistance

  Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.283, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.

  Al Alvarez

  Believe, Luck, Don't Believe

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• When you make a bet, you're saying something.

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• I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

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  Mean, Patient

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• Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.

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  Escribir, Pensar, Amable

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• Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

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  Gambling, Games, Cards

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• Cada ráfaga esporádica de trabajo, cada pequeño éxito y decepción, cada momento de calma y relajación, parecían simplemente un alto temporal en mi descenso constante a través de capa tras capa de depresión, como un ascensor que se detuviera un momento de camino al sótano.

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  Depression, Disappointment, Relaxation

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• Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

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  Art, Coherence, May

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• The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

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  Apuestas, Juegos, Looks

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• I'm good at reading people.

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  Reading, People

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