"La memoria es un archivo lleno de versiones, no de verdades absolutas."
记忆是一个充满版本的档案,而不是绝对真理。
——《在神户国民党交通部欢迎会的演说》(1913年3月13日)
"Escribir sobre Centroamérica es escribir sobre el corazón del mundo, aunque ese corazón sangre."
The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. And which values? Even when they do not panic, men often sense that older ways of feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer beginnings are ambiguous to the point of moral stasis.