Quotations from: Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls, published 1993. Seriously ill with AIDS, unable to write, the author suicided in 1990. Another quotation follows in the next post.
“Beauty has always been dangerous. Martí said that everyone who is the bearer of light remains alone.” p. 194. Here the context suggests the author has in mind physical sexual beauty. But I believe the words are true pertaining to transcendent beauty. jlh
“I tell my truth, as does the Jew who has suffered racism or the Russian who has been in the Gulag, or any human being who has eyes to see the way things really are. I scream, therefore I exist.” p. 301
“My new world was ruled not by political power but by another power, also sinister: the power of money. After having lived in [the USA] for some years, I realize that it is a country without a soul: everything revolves around money.” p. 310
Photo by Mary Fran
These powerful words make me think about how much my discernment gets caught up in financial needs–how will we keep roof over head, food on table, health insured–especially the latter. I’m not sick enough to be disabled, but not sure I’m well enough to keep working full-time. It’s a non-supportive society, isn’t it?
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