I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire
Eduardo GaleanoTags: truth time courage kill desire
Si le niegan la boca, ella habla por las manos, o por los ojos, o por los poros, o por donde sea.
Porque todos, toditos tenemos algo que decir a los demas; alguna cosa que merece ser por los demas celebrada, o perdonada.
Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.
Eduardo GaleanoTags: capitalism
The walls are the publishers of the poor.
Eduardo GaleanoTags: inspirational
Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.
Eduardo GaleanoThe dreams were off on a trip. Helena went as far as the train station with them. She bade them farewell from the platform, waving a handkerchief
Eduardo GaleanoThe world,' he revealed, 'is a heap of people, a sea of tiny flames.'
Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every colour. Some peoples flames are so still they don't even flicker in the wind, while others have wild flames that fill the air with sparks. Some foolish flames neither burn nor shed light, but others blaze with life so fiercely that you can't look at them without blinking and if you approach, you shine in fire.
I would recognise myself in each of his translations and he would feel betrayed and annoyed whenever I didn't write something the way he would have. A part of me died with him, a part of him lives with me.
Eduardo GaleanoAll I know is this: art is art, or it's shit
Eduardo GaleanoRecordar: To remember; from the Latin records, to pass back through the heart
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