A Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.. Mexican writer poet and diplomat
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Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once. Go to Quote / Comment
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. Go to Quote / Comment
'Art' is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game. Go to Quote / Comment
If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time. Go to Quote / Comment
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game. Go to Quote / Comment