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1523, Cuzco: Huaina Cápac – Eduardo Galeano

The Inca is staring at the sun. Not as a challenge, as his priests fear,

February 15 is Saint Faustino, patron of cuckolds and singles around the

“As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought

“You know what I’d like to do?” Mr. McArdle said. “I’d

I read Walden when I was 15, young enough to take it seriously and spend

“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

Why don’t you show me that Paris,” she said,” that you have written

I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the

What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up

To be free, as I then knew myself to be, is to realize that all conquest

who wandered around and around at midnight in the railway yard wondering