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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 decadence.

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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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Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it. — Georges Bernanos
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total… — Samuel Butler
The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and… — Hillary Clinton
The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another. — Aberjhani
What is there to be said about a Church which certainly promises its believers eternal salvation, but at the same time condemns… — Arnulf Ã˜verland
I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns. — John Jay Chapman
Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave. — Napoleon Bonaparte
It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At… — Bertrand Russell
Youth condemns; maturity condones — Amy Lowell
Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses,… — William Ernest Henley
We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge.… — Chris Hedges

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