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• Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair,…
• Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
• The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.
• Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.
• What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much…
• There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them at the aquarium at…
• Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.
• When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.
• Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.
• The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.
• I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so…
• The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

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