Latin America is very fond of the word "hope." We like to be called the "continent of hope." Candidates for deputy, senator, presi...dent, call themselves "candidates of hope." This hope is really something like a promise of heaven, an IOU whose payment is always being put off. It is put off until the next legislative campaign, until next year, until the next century.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as... birds, high as prices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? In...side? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good... for us where we can find it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »