“ He himself felt defeated because he was fighting against something he did not hate, because he did not understand the fratricidal hatred between the sons of Araby and Israel, and because he loved and… Carlos Fuentes
“ Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the form her affection took: paying attention. Carlos Fuentes
“ The logic of the symbol does not express the experiment; it is the experiment. Language is the phenomenon, and the observation of the phenomenon changes its nature. Carlos Fuentes
“ Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is one Monarch and one Sword. Carlos Fuentes
“ The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw… Carlos Fuentes
“ Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature. Carlos Fuentes
“ Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if nee… Carlos Fuentes
“ All that was left to me was certain images and all of them spoke to me of the collapse of a cruel world and the slow construction in its stead of another world, equally cruel. Carlos Fuentes
“ The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open to all, and to be free in a speech that never concludes. Carlos Fuentes
“ I dalje verujem da Sunce izlazi svakoga dana i da svako novo Sunce najavljuje novi dan;dan koji je juče bio budućnost. I dalje verujem da će današnji dan, u trenutku zatvaranja jedne stranice vremena,… Carlos Fuentes
“ Cristo quería a los justos, habitaba las buenas conciencias, pertenecía a los hombres de bien, a la gente decente, a las buenas reputaciones. ¡Que cargara el diablo con los humildes, con los pecadores… Carlos Fuentes
“ The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating t… Carlos Fuentes
