Quotes by Alejo Carpentier - Page 1

The truth was much more beautiful.
Alejo Carpentier / Novelist
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In America everything is fantastical.
Alejo Carpentier / Novelist
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I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.
Alejo Carpentier / Novelist
Composition
Harmony
Spontaneity
Spontaneous
Manner
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From the beginning, the sensation of the marvelous presupposes faith.
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Marvelous
Sensation
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The concept of the marvelous begins to take form when it arises from an unexpected alteration of reality, the miracle.
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Marvelous
Miracle
Unexpected
Alteration
Arises
Begins
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Even the pallid daughters of Albion forget for a moment their Pre-Raphaelite poses by burying themselves in the sonorous sortilege of the Antilles.
Alejo Carpentier / Novelist
Burying
Poses
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I had breathed in the atmosphere created by Henri Christophe, the monarch of incredible aims, much more surprising than all the kings invented by the surrealists.
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Atmosphere
Surprising
Aims
Breathed
Monarch
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A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem.
Alejo Carpentier / Novelist
Men
Alphabet
Eye
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Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.
Alejo Carpentier / Novelist
Cuban
Rejoice
Struggle
Triumph
Continent
Daily
Impose
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I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.
Alejo Carpentier / Novelist
Accepted
Century
Cuban
Musical
Uncertain
Everywhere
Commission
Conquering
End Result
Genres
Island
Gladly
Popular
Producing
Result
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In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence is infinite, there is no possibility of sacrifice, all is rest and joy. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in The Kingdom of This World.
Alejo Carpentier / Novelist
Beautiful
Greatness
Sacrifice
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