Jose Emilio Pacheco Quotes & Sayings

The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history ... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an historical novel ... — Jose Emilio Pacheco

I keep thinking

That poetry is something else:

A form of love that exists only in silence,

In a secret place between two people,

Almost always between two strangers — Jose Emilio Pacheco

We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others. — Jose Emilio Pacheco

The only thing a person of my age can do is fall in love secretly, silently, like
I had done with Mariana. Fall in love knowing that all is lost and there is no hope. — Jose Emilio Pacheco