Felipe González

“The foundation and strength of human evolution lie in empathy.”

“Politicians should live like ordinary citizens.”

“Trump supporters are just now realizing that Superman is the Immigrant.”

“In a democracy, leaders must resemble people, not monarchs.”

“As an author, one negotiates between aesthetic will and the possibility of circulation.”

“The fable is an aesthetic scalpel that opens the social flesh without turning it into a museum object.”

“Gaza is a wound that will never stop bleeding.”

“Can someone suffering from hunger or abuse really be encouraged to read a book?”

“Good literature should disturb the status quo, not preach.”

“One could say I understand the city as an entity that shapes those who inhabit it, even though, in the process, it can become an anthropophagous being, merciless—especially toward the less privileged.”

“In a certain way, I think that literature is capable of effectively uncovering and revealing many more “layers” of the framework that composes and hides our society and ourselves. That is, it is capable of bringing us closer to something that, for lack of a better word, I will call “Truth,” and that applies to Art itself, more than to History, more than to Anthropology, or more than to any other branch of the Social Sciences.”

“When politicians take over public transportation, public health, public education—that is, live like ordinary people and not like rich people—everything will be better.”

“Today, going to schools is essential, since, just as doctors have a duty to protect life, writers must spread literature, because literature is in itself, along with art in general, the greatest form of freedom we still have.”

“Beware of nuns and priests, they will make you doubt your faith.”

“In the end, finding the Truth will always be tiring in a world full of appearances.”

“They never noticed the one who, silently, sustained this story, chose the future, set the guidelines for their memories and desires.”

“Probably, the eccentricities of those who visited the establishment meant nothing to him, especially if they were accompanied by a generous tip.”

“His life had been a sum of half-hearted decisions.”

“…the literary feeds on that fragility of life.”