"The women I have loved I have desired……" — Carlos Fuentes
"The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself."
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72 Quotes by Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes has 72 quotes on this site.
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The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.
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In literature, you know only what you imagine
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity.
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Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
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There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search…
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Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.
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By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last…
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What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
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You, yesterday, did the usual things, just as any day, You don't know if it's worth remembering. You would prefer…
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In a world torn by every kind of fundamentalism - religious, ethnic, nationalist and tribal - we must grant first…
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Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going…
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No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by…
— Theodore Bikel
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I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have…
— Sitting Bull
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I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom…
— Donald Cargill
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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired…
— Maya Angelou
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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for…
— C.S. Lewis
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Creative power is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic yet undifferentiated substance can…
— Thomas Troward
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A state of expectancy is a great assetl; a state of uncertainty-one moment thinking "perhaps" and the next moment thinking…
— Ernest Holmes
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... we believe in the vocation of communion and participation of our people, who day to day awaken to their…
— Adolfo Perez Esquivel
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In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that…
— Francois Fenelon
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Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and…
— Andrew Jackson
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Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility - a blend often desired in later days of hope…
— Marie-Luise Gothein
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All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what…
— Martin Luther
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