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When your life is half over, I think you have to see the face of death in order to start writing seriously. There are people who see the end quickly, like Rimbaud. When you start seeing it, you feel you have to rescue these things. Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.
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“La muerte espera al más valiente, al más rico, al más bello. Pero los iguala al más cobarde, al más pobre, al más feo, no en el simple hecho de morir, ni siquiera en la conciencia de la muerte, sino en la ignorancia de la muerte. Sabemos que un día vendrá, pero nunca sabemos lo que es.”
—Carlos Fuentes (11 de noviembre de 1928 - 15 de mayo de 2012)
“Death awaits the most valient, the most wealthy, the most beautiful. But death makes them equal to the most cowardly, the poorest, the ugliest, not simply in the simple fact of dying, not even in knowing death, but in the ignorance of death. We know that one day it will come, but we never know what it is.”
—Carlos Fuentes (November 11, 1928 - May 15, 2012)
Quote courtesy of All Things Mexican.
Image of the young Fuentes, via Andres Villaveces, whose tumblr, especially if you read any Spanish, is completely worth the reading (and following).
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