Don’t you see? There were no doctors in Paradise. Disease came after doctors.
Lying in the sun, he follows the unhurried paths of seagulls and sailboats, the azure breeze, the ebb and flow of foam on the water and in the air.
Our system is one of detachment; to keep silenced people from asking questions, to keep the judged from judging, to keep the solitary people from joining together, and the soul from putting together its pieces.
Fear of living, fear of falling, fear of losing your job, your car, your home, your possessions, fear of never having what you ought to have in order to be. In the widespread clamor for public security, imperiled by lurking criminal monsters, the members of the middle class shout loudest. They defend order as if they owned it, even though they’re only tenants overwhelmed by high rents and the threat of eviction.
Somos lo que hacemos, pero somos, principalmente, lo que hacemos para cambiar lo que somos.
Sometimes the idol does not fall all at once. And sometimes when he breaks, people devour the pieces.
Why are some walls so loud and others mute?
Advertising enjoins everyone to consume, while the economy prohibits the vast majority of humanity from doing so. The command that everyone do what so many cannot becomes an invitation to crime.
I drink water that drinks me and I am watched by what I watch.
For the world today, America is just the United States; the region we inhabit is a sub-America, a second-class America of nebulous identity.
To win without magic, without surprise or beauty, isn’t that worse than losing?
Cada diez hombres hay un hijo de puta.
FORBIDDEN TO BE CURIOUS Knowledge is sin. Adam and Eve ate the fruit of that tree and look what happened to them. Some time later, Nicolaus Copernicus, Giordano Bruno, and Galileo Galilei were punished for having shown that the earth moves around the sun. Copernicus.
Until a few years ago, a man who had no debts was considered virtuous, honest, and hardworking. Today, he’s an extraterrestrial. Whoever does not owe, does not exist. I owe, therefore I am. Whoever is not credit-worthy deserves neither name nor face. The credit card is proof of the right to exist; debt, something even those who have nothing have. Every single person or country that belongs to this world has at least one foot caught in this trap.
And when his final days were drawing near, he let it be known that just as the sun determined the route of plants, the seas obeyed the moon. “Senile dementia,” his colleagues diagnosed.
Vale la pena morir, por todo eso sin lo cual no vale la pena vivir.
The vicious circle is perfect: foreign debt and foreign investment oblige us to multiply exports that they themselves devour. The task can’t be accomplished with gentlemanly manners. To fulfill their function as hostages of foreign prosperity, Latin American workers must be held prisoner, either inside or outside of the jails.
Whatever Latin America sells – raw materials or manufactures – its chief export product is really cheap labor.
The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty.
Other versions, however, insist the ‘but’ was snuck in. She sang: ‘I am black and I am beautiful.