Three Halves of Ino Moxo Quotes

“If only one existence listens to it and takes it into consideration, then you don't even have to tell the truth. In telling other things, you will invariably tell the truth as well, even if you or the truth wish otherwise.”
― César Calvo, Three Halves of Ino Moxo : Teachings of the Wizard of the Upper Amazon

“The first man was not a man, Don Javier tells me, entangled in deep laughter. The first man was a woman...”
― César Calvo, Three Halves of Ino Moxo : Teachings of the Wizard of the Upper Amazon

“One of the several masks of this same reality.”
― César Calvo, Three Halves of Ino Moxo : Teachings of the Wizard of the Upper Amazon

“The most difficult problem is not that of wanting to learn. It is time. With enough time you might learn to listen and to walk. And with enough time I would listen to you, and walk your way without undoing mine. With sufficient time everything will again belong to everybody. We will be able to exist in our life, and at the same time in the life of all persons who were once things, and in the life of things that later are to be persons.”
― César Calvo, Three Halves of Ino Moxo : Teachings of the Wizard of the Upper Amazon

“I could tell you many things; you will listen to none of them. And if you listen t any of them, you will do so in your own way.”
― César Calvo, Three Halves of Ino Moxo : Teachings of the Wizard of the Upper Amazon

“Some have the will of a language but lack a mouth.”
― César Calvo, Three Halves of Ino Moxo : Teachings of the Wizard of the Upper Amazon

“If you live only for yourself, you already have chosen to die. And since nothing will cure you, even though on the outside you may appear to have been born and continue living, you will die, you are already dead.”
― César Calvo, Three Halves of Ino Moxo : Teachings of the Wizard of the Upper Amazon

“Our words are similar to wells, and those wells can accommodate the most diverse waters: cataracts, drizzles of other times, oceans that were and will be of ashes, whirlpools of rivers, of human being, and of tears as well. Our words are like people, and sometimes much more, not simple carriers of only one meaning. They are not like those bored pots holding always the same water until their beings, their tongues, forget them, and then crack or get tired, and lean to one side, almost dead. No. You can put entire rivers in our pots, and if perchance they break, if the envelope of the words cracks, the water remain: vivid, intact, running, and renovating itself unceasingly. They are live beings who wander on their own, our words: animals that never repeat themselves and are never resigned to a single skin, to an unchanging temperature, to the same steps.”
― César Calvo, Three Halves of Ino Moxo : Teachings of the Wizard of the Upper Amazon