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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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Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and imperialism.
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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
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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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The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.
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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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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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You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
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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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I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck.
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chaos: it has no plural.
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The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs the Peruvians descend from the Incas the Argentineans descend from the boats.
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Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency
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Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.
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Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
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Retrospectively, I would agree with Luis Bunuel that sex without sin is like an egg without salt.
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I need, therefore I imagine.
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