The authentic self is always in exile. - Fernando Vallejo

"The authentic self is always in exile."

Fernando Vallejo Solitude

Novelist Colombian Born 1942 (age 84)

More from Fernando Vallejo

"Life is a struggle against forgetting who we are."

"Colombia is a country where people kill each other for ideologies they don't understand."

"The Catholic Church is the greatest fraud in human history."

"Memory is the only immortality we have."

"Sometimes being the best means being the loneliest."

"Solitude gives us time to reflect on what matters"

"I'm not good with people, never have been."

"I feel like I'm disappearing."