"We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle."

-- Mario Benedetti

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“I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.”
“I soak up personalities and energy. I can identify with anything because truthfully everything that makes up the world is characterized in some way in my family I feel, so my empathy is strong for mankind in general.”
“Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.”
“You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.”
“I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.”

Source : "Laureate and hardy". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2002.
“What's your name? Um... Think about it. You don't get to pick again. Tris.”
“I've certainly stayed a marginal figure, though I became a member of the "surveillance committee" fairly early on. I can actually live pretty well with this, because I'm allowed to work in peace - except when I have to give strings of interviews... And also, I've never sought a position of power in the music business. I became a teacher not so as to found a Kagel School, but to transmit knowledge. My work as a composer should be the only yardstick by which my contribution can be measured.”
“I want literature to open all the doors that I can't open by myself, and to allow me to see things that I wouldn't otherwise see.”

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