Recommended quotes

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“Portraying poverty or violence as a photogenic landscape is a betrayal.”

“The economy is a silent co-author.”

“So much immorality, so much petty selfishness in using migrants for mere electoral interests.”

“Truth does not justify gratuitous cruelty.”

“The right does not deny the disappeared detainees: it manages them as silence. For them, they are not absent bodies but obstacles already overcome; and upon that well-ordered grave they build their idea of a country.”

“The Chilean far right did not win an election: it won oblivion. And with those who vote against memory, there is no debate—because dialogue begins only where consciousness still remains.”

“Frustration and desperation are on the same floor as naivety.”

“The UN’s silence in the face of Trump is the final stone in its own grave.”

“There will remain the trace of Trump and right-wing policies: warped decisions, brutal words, and the habit of treating human dignity as a nuisance.”

“Then will come the excuse of those who supported this New World, saying they did not know, that it was exaggerated, that they were only defending order.”

“And there will remain the uncomfortable memory, the precise recollection of the day when, following Trump and his policies, they accepted the unacceptable without questioning it.”

“If an anonymous reader finds in a fragment the key to name their own shame or their own tenderness, then the work has fulfilled its most precious social function.”

“Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.”

“In mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.”
In re mathematica ars proponendi quaestionem pluris facienda est quam solvendi.

“The head talks to the heart and the heart talks to the feet.”

“No individual can win a game by himself.”

“If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.”

“If you understood everything I said, you’d be me”

“Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.”