"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."
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"I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see."
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"Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are."
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"People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich."
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"The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers."
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"The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan."
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"Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes."
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"The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory."
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"Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters..."
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"A journey never ends. Only the travellers end."
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"What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?"
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"We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other."
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"The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975."
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"No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all."
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"There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close."
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"Why did we become blind, I don't know, perhaps one day we'll find out, Do you want me to tell you what I think, Yes, do, I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see."
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"Each day is a little bit of history"
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"We are finally living in Plato's cave, if we consider how those who were imprisoned within the cave - who could do nothing but watch those shadows passing on the back wall - were convinced that those shadows were their one and only reality. I see a profound similarity to all this in the epoch we're now living in. We no longer live simply through images: we live through images that don't even exist, which are the result not of physical projection but of pure virtuality."
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"I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends."
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"...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing."
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