Fernando Vallejo

"Civilization is the art of repressing our true nature."

"The writer is a witness to the unspeakable."

"Freedom exists only in the moment of its assertion."

"We are all exiled from the paradise we never knew."

"The greatest battles are fought in the depths of the mind."

"What we inherit is chains disguised as inheritance."

"To be human is to be condemned to meaning-making."

"The power of literature is that it names the unnameable."

"Forgetting is complicity with the powerful."

"We live in the graveyard of abandoned possibilities."

"Art is the only rebellion available to the powerless."

"The truth we refuse to face becomes our destiny."

"Death is the only true teacher of humility."

"Language fails us precisely when we need it most."

"We are all servants of forces we cannot comprehend."

"The authentic self is always in exile."

"To write is to excavate the tomb of your own existence."

"Justice requires us to remember what the powerful wish forgotten."

"We die a thousand deaths before we die the final one."

"The mind that seeks certainty has abandoned understanding."