Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.Wole Soyinka
“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.”
Poet and diplomat · 1914 – 1998
Mexican poet, essayist and diplomat, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1990). His essay The Labyrinth of Solitude is a landmark meditation on Mexican identity, and his poetry bridges Mexican and European modernism.
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