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“A função do jornalismo nesta época, por exemplo, ou, pelo menos, nesta sociedade, não era informar, era escamotear toda e qualquer forma de discernimento entre a mentira e a verdade, substituir a realidade por uma ficção na qual se manifesta a massa oceânica de complexos, frustrações, invejas, ódios e traumas de um público corroídos pelo ressentimento e pela inveja. Mais uma prova de que os pequenos espaços de civilização nunca prevaleceriam sobre a incomensurável barbárie.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The Discreet Hero

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“Samo u snovima, u poeziji, u igri - zapaliti svijeću, šetati s njome hodnikom - kadšto provirujemo u ono što smo bili prije nego što smo postali ovo za što ne znamo jesmo li uopće.”
― Cortázar Julio

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“He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

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“And the frontier in here?" the North American woman had asked, tapping her forehead. "And the frontier in hear?" General Arroyo had responded, touching his heart. "There's one frontier we only dare to cross at night," the old gringo said. "The frontier of our differences with others, of our battles with ourselves.”
― Carlos Fuentes, The Old Gringo

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“The evil in the world comes almost always from ignorance, and goodwill can cause as much damage as ill-will if it is not enlightened. People are more often good than bad, though in fact that is not the question. But they are more or less ignorant and this is what one calls vice or virtue, the most appalling vice being the ignorance that thinks it knows everything and which consequently authorizes itself to kill. The murderer's soul is blind, and there is no true goodness or fine love without the greatest possible degree of clear-sightedness.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

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