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" I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist. "

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" Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there? "

" Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity. "

" It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power. "

" To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life. "

" In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers. "

" The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. "

" Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up. "

" Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard. "

" There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is. "

" Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is. "

" The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others. "

" Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer. "

" I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see. "

" Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer. "

" In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die. "

" A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction. "

" I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. "

" Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. "

" As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things. "

" Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts. "

" Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974. "

" The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas. "

" We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations. "