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I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.
~ Alejo Carpentier
20th Century
About
Accepted
Being
Century
Commission
Conquering
Cuban
End
End Result
Everywhere
Genres
Gladly
Hand
Heard
Island
Music
Musical
Our
Popular
Producing
Result
Small
Uncertain
World
Would
Would-Be
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I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.
~ Alejo Carpentier
Composition
Harmony
Manner
Spontaneous
Studied
Very
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Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.
~ Alejo Carpentier
After
Always
Continent
Cuban
Daily
European
Faith
Final
Five
Had
Impose
Less
Music
Our
Own
Rejoice
Struggle
Success
Than
Those
Triumph
Who
Years
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Even the pallid daughters of Albion forget for a moment their Pre-Raphaelite poses by burying themselves in the sonorous sortilege of the Antilles.
~ Alejo Carpentier
Burying
Daughters
Even
Forget
Moment
Poses
Themselves
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From the beginning, the sensation of the marvelous presupposes faith.
~ Alejo Carpentier
Beginning
Faith
Marvelous
Sensation
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I had breathed in the atmosphere created by Henri Christophe, the monarch of incredible aims, much more surprising than all the kings invented by the surrealists.
~ Alejo Carpentier
Aims
Atmosphere
Breathed
Created
Had
Incredible
Invented
Kings
Monarch
More
Much
Surprising
Than
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The concept of the marvelous begins to take form when it arises from an unexpected alteration of reality, the miracle.
~ Alejo Carpentier
Alteration
Arises
Begins
Concept
Form
Marvelous
Miracle
Reality
Take
Unexpected
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Alejo Carpentier
Profession
Novelist
BirthDate
26 December, 1904
DeathDate
24 April, 1980
Country
Cuba
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