Ernesto Sábato

Ernesto Sábato (June 24, 1911 – April 30, 2011) was an Argentine writer, painter and physicist.

Quotes

 * Un genio es alguien que descubre que la piedra que cae y la luna que no cae representan un solo y mismo fenómeno.
 * A genius is someone who discovers that the stone that falls and the moon that doesn't fall represent one and the same phenomenon.
 * Ernesto Sábato, in On Heroes and Tombs [Sobre héroes y tumbas] (1961), Ch. X
 * Variant translation: A genius is someone who discovers that the falling stone and the moon that falls represent one and the same phenomenon.


 * A man who wants to find out who he really is should try watching the woman he loves as she dances the tango with a maestro.
 * Ernesto Sábato in: Clive James, Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time, (2007)