Death Quote by Carlos Fuentes — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.”

“For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.”

“So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution.”

“Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.”

“Y allá en el fondo está la muerte si no corremos y llegamos antes y comprendemos que ya no importa.”

“That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.”

“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”