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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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"All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values."
"Love in your heart is better than gold in your hands."
"You may be poor, but important; uneducated, but wise; lowly, but noble; simple, but insightful; and ordinary, but great."
"How we respond to the opportunities and challenges of the outside world now determines how much the outside world values us."
"A heart of gold is more precious than a necklace of diamonds."
"Be a teacher. Be a healer. Be a giver. Be a winner."
"You are beloved; even if you were the last person on earth, the sun would rise for you."
"Success is the sweetest thing to taste, the bitterest thing to lose, and the hardest thing to earn."
"If your coming into the world was a mistake, then you are the most beautiful error in the universe."
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"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."
"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."
"In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading."
"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."
"But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals."
"A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque."
"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."
"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."
"The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent."
"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."
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