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I need, therefore I imagine.

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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
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No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
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You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
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