Before 1521 we could have been anything and everything not Filipino; after 1565 we can be nothing but Filipino.
Nick JoaquínThis is the difference between the Spanish advent and the American; that the technical revolution provoked by the first produced the Filipino, while the cultural upheaval provoked by the second merely helped us to become more aware of this Filipinoness.
Nick JoaquínWhen he had gone home, he had been frightened, he had refused to face what he saw. But he had not really wanted to come home to a land, only to a pas; and not finding the past there, he had run away, fearing the reality, preferring the dream.
Nick JoaquínThe world was always going to be remade by people who were too busy to remake themselves first and who left the world twice as miserable as before.
Nick JoaquínI fell in love when I was twenty-six. Love in my interpretation comes once in a lifetime.
Nick JoaquínLove should have no alternatives; love should be the sole reason for loving; love should spring of itself.
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