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
'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
Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning. Go to Quote / Comment
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. Go to Quote / Comment
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power of ... Go to Quote / Comment