Eduardo Galeano on Reality, Feeling and Reason

„Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced.“

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Eduardo Galeano was a Uruguayan writer and journalist known for his socially critical works.

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Eduardo Galeano quote about reality, feeling, and the connection between the heart and mind

Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015) was a prominent Uruguayan writer and journalist. He gained fame for his innovative and critical literature dealing with political and social issues of Latin America, including his famous work 'Open Veins of Latin America'.

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