“Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.”

— Eduardo Galeano · Wisdom quote

Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking. — Eduardo Galeano quote card
Journalist and writer · 1940 – 2015

Uruguayan journalist and writer whose Open Veins of Latin America (1971) retold the continent's history from below. His trilogy Memory of Fire and The Book of Embraces blend history, fable and vignette into a unique literary form.

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