“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.”

— Eduardo Galeano · Happiness quote

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. — 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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