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As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.
But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals.
For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing.
I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.
In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.
In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.
In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.
My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile.
The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.
I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.
I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.
You are lost the moment you know what the result will be.
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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