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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning – in other words, of absurdity – the more energetically meaning is sought.
What’s certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba’s can’t continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.
If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He’s not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he’s really needed.
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.