Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude.
And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.
The purpose of torture is not getting information. It’s spreading fear.
There are visible and invisible dictators. The power structure of world football is monarchical. It’s the most secret kingdom in the world.
For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.
The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.
I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire.
The world is becoming an immense military base, and that base is becoming a mental hospital the size of the world. Inside the nuthouse, which ones are crazy?
I don’t believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.
If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are.
The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.
A unipolar world – one with only one power – makes sure that this space almost disappears. In a multipolar world this space multiplies. Therefore, there is nostalgia for a multipolar world.
We live in a world where the funeral matters more than the dead, the wedding more than love and the physical rather than the intellect. We live in the container culture, which despises the content.
There is nothing more orderly than a cemetery.
We are the sum of our efforts to change who we are.
The goal is soccer’s orgasm. And like orgasms, goals have become an ever less frequent occurrence in modern life.
Mis certezas desayunan dudas.
The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing. Our part of the world, known today as Latin America, was precocious: it has specialized in losing ever since those remote time when Renaissance Europeans ventured across the ocean and buried their teeth in the throats of the Indian civilizations.
The nature of the parts of the body cannot be understood without grasping the nature of the organism as a whole. Symptoms.
If women were necessary, God would have one.