"But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning……" — Juan Goytisolo
"But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals."
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Juan Goytisolo
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17 Quotes by Juan Goytisolo
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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…
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In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses…
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In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a…
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And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the…
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A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up…
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And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did…
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Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect…
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The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
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My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological…
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As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with CLARITY, I became more and more…
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I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to…
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In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
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The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
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