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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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