Marco Denevi

Marco Denevi (May 12, 1922 in Sáenz Peña, Buenos Aires – December 12, 1998) was an Argentine award-winning author of novels and short stories, as well as a lawyer and journalist.

Falsificaciones (1977)

 * A menudo un dictador es un revolucionario que hizo carrera. A menudo un revolucionario es un burgués que no la hizo.
 * Translation: A dictator is often a revolutionary who has made a name for himself. A revolutionary is often a bourgeois who hasn't.


 * El imán humilla al hierro. Es una teoría sobre el amor.
 * Translation: Magnets humiliate iron. It's a theory about love.


 * Mi culpa marcha tan lenta que siempre la alcanzan el perdón y el olvido.
 * Translation: My guilt walks so slowly that forgiveness and oblivion always catch up with it.


 * Moraleja de todas las fábulas: el hombre es un animal.
 * Translation: The moral of all fables: Man is an animal.