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Quote by Salvador Allende

“Every country has its own reality and its own leaders, and the leaders act in accordance with their reality.”

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Salvador Allende was a former President of Chile, born on June 26, 1908, and died on September 11, 1973. He served as the President of Chile from 1964 to 1970 and was a prominent figure in the Latin American left-wing political movement. more

“I have been to Cuba many times. I have spoken many times with Fidel Castro and got to know Commander Ernesto Guevara well enough. I know Cuba's leaders and their struggle. It has been difficult to overcome the blockade. But the reality in Cuba is very different from that in Chile. Cuba came from a dictatorship, and I arrived at the presidency after being senator for 25 years.”

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Author:Salvador Allende

“What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out.”

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“No place could be less sympathetic to my politics than America.”

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“My work is received more intelligently in Europe.”

Europe

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“I had my first museum showing of my slide show in Rotterdam, in 1983. I love Rotterdam. I love harbour cities in general.”

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“I like it [Rotterdam] much better than Amsterdam which is too much like a postcard. It's too cute for me. Rotterdam is more real, it's got a stomach.”

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“In '83 I started travelling round Europe with my slide show. It wasn't until I moved to Europe and got accepted in a big way in Berlin in the '90s that I got acceptance by the big art world in New York. I didn't really get to be known, or in the market, til '93 in New York.”

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“Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.”

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“Now what I like is that other artists know my work and are interested in me or want to collaborate.”

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“I'm very flattered when people I respect like my work. It's like a dream of a little kid when somebody I idolised likes my work.”

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