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When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to…

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The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to…
But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result…
In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings,…
In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that…
And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that…
A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the…
And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the…
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his…
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual…
As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with CLARITY, I became more and more alienated from…
I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became…

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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo
The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt. — George Santayana
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and… — Joseph Paxton
It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who… — Remy de Gourmont
The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately… — Richard Owen
Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy… — Robert Greene
Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which… — C.S. Lewis
Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals. — Louis Agassiz
We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all.… — Oswald Chambers
In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities. — Guillaume Canet

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