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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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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
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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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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
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Memory is satisfied desire.
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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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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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The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
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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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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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What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
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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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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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