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Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others

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Eduardo Galeano
Age: 74 †
Born: 1940
Born: September 3
Died: 2015
Died: April 13
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Eduardo Hughes Galeano
Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano
Eduardo German Maria Hughes Galeano
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When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe, sometimes laugh, sometimes cry, just like a person, a little person.
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I am not particularly interested in saving time I prefer to enjoy it.
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I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire
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Charity, vertical, humiliates. Solidarity, horizontal, helps.
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Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.
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A pretty move, for the love of God.
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There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.
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