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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.
Carlos Fuentes
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Carlos Fuentes
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 11
Died: 2012
Died: May 15
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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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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
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