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"I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger."
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"You were endowed with the treasure of time so that you could buy greatness with it."
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"There is worth everywhere and in everything we see."
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"The value of a substance is the product of the time spent to achieve it."
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"You are beloved; even if you were the last person on earth, the sun would rise for you."
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"If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics."
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"Always spend your time adding value to your life."
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"Time is the wealth through which everything comes into existence."
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"Too many people die early, either tragically or natural death, because they did not treat their lives with any sense of value."
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"If your coming into the world was a mistake, then you are the most beautiful error in the universe."
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"Water is gold in the desert."
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Explore more quotes by Juan Goytisolo
"The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language."
Purpose
"And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me."
Experience
"For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing."
Nation
"In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc."
Poetry
"And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition."
Life
"When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts."
Architecture
"As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold."
Truth
"In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony."
Faith
"I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger."
Values
"In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist."
Faith
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