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If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are
Eduardo Galeano
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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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History never really says goodbye. History says, see you later.
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I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.
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Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war.
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The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.
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The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body.
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In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.
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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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The walls are the publishers of the poor.
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