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Every movement's greatest sin is that it gives itself a name.

We differ in our understanding of love, but feeling is a universal rule, not some human construct. Man-made ideas are based purely, of course, on knowledge. Those that apply for all eternity transcends it. Truth is something that has to be lived, not something that has to be known.

The sea, the indifferent sea, is party to the crime. Neutrality is judgment. Silence conveys consent and condemnation.

No one noticed that, beneath the hopeful slogans, nothing was any different from the Spanish regime, for the newcomer, too, had early on made no inhibitions in operating for the common greed of the exclusive few.

Religion only loved the poor because it was easy to manhandle the weak.

The more she came to know, the more she felt useless because none of what she had read had prepared her for the role the nuns insisted God had created her for.

For her, the role of professors and philosophers is not to produce knowledge, but to create tools so that those with basic understanding can easily unearth them.

In a battlefield whose womb did not give birth to anyone fighting over her, the lust for national glory is a delusion; one can only mythologize.

The homily engraved on the metal of every Spanish cannon: Fiel Pero Desdichado. Faithful thriugh unfortunate. Wretched but true. By these words worst things had been given affirmation by divine right, God being the whip and argument of empire, gold being the monologue of kings.