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“So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.”

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Ruben Blades, born on July 16, 1948, is a renowned singer. His musical career began in Latin music, which later evolved into salsa and funk styles, making him an internationally recognized artist. more

“What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can never be imposed from without; born of the profoundest tendencies within a society, its direction is to a certain extent unpredictable, in much the same way as the eventual configuration of a tree's branches.”

Way Art Certain Process Born Tree Style Invention Tendencies Artistic Branches Entity Unpredictable Violet Configuration

Author:Octavio Paz

“The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.”

Done Asks Progress Worship Giants Things Done Getting Things Done Enamored Titans

Book:Alternating Current

Source: Alternating Current

“Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.”

Trying Break Creativity

Book:The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre

Source: The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre

“Death is the mother of forms.”

Form Death Mother

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden.”

Ideas Values Evil Drug Good And Evil Unjust Forbidden

Book:Alternating Current

Source: Alternating Current

“Language lies outside of society because it is its foundation; but it also lies within society because that is the only place where it exists and the only place where it develops.”

Lying Language Foundation

Book:Alternating Current

Source: Alternating Current

“The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or explanation, but an end.”

Ends Whole Regret Confusion Explanation Life And Death Omission

Book:The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre

Source: The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre

“Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.”

Power Terrible Variety Gestures Freeze Theatrical Monotonous Grandiose

Author:Octavio Paz

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