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The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
Carlos Fuentes
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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
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Mexico is a very complex, mysterious country. I will never understand it fully, and that's why I write so much about it, in order to try to understand it.
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There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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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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chaos: it has no plural.
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There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.
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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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I have no literary fears.
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Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
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Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.
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Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.
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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you dont necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.
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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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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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Memory is satisfied desire.
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What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
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