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"The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent."
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"Night is the fatherland of the great inspirations."

"Why does she have wings?'So she can fly."

"There is no adventure like the journey of life."

"You have everything within you to do great things in this world. Maybe, you are inspired to sing a song, write a book or poems, create art in various forms. Or you may decide to find a cure for disease, end world hunger, prevent abuse, or take a stand politically. The question is how to begin the process of fulfilling your vision. Start where you are and use the resources you have to build from there. Inspiration is what motivates you to achieve your remarkable ideas. Also it takes time and dedication to excel to the next level."

"When you're crying, your tears may be watering the seeds of your come-back."

"How would your life be different if.You approached all relationships with authenticity and honesty? Let today be the day.You dedicate yourself to building relationships on the solid foundation of truth and authenticity."

"Tombstones and legacies are for the dead.I will live for now. Impact the world for now. Change lives for now. Laugh for now. Love for now. I will experience the length, depth, and breadth of life for now. Later will come soon enough and I will be so tired that I shall welcome the rest it offers.. But for now, ONWARD!"

"The universe is so well balanced that the mere fact that you have a problem also serves as a sign that there is a solution."

"It's hard not to stand in awe and enchantment with the beauty in which nature expresses herself."
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"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."

"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 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."

"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."

"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."

"Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country."

"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."

"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."

"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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