(Words of thanks, to receive the Stig Dagerman Prize in Sweden on September 12, 2010)
Dear Stig:
May we be worthy of your desperate hope.
Hopefully we have the courage to be alone and courage to take risks to be together, because it is useless a tooth out of his mouth or a finger out of hand.
Hopefully we can be disobedient, each time we receive orders to humiliate our conscience or violate common sense.
Hopefully we deserve to be called crazy, mad as they were called the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, for committing the folly of refusing to forget in a time of obligatory amnesia.
Hopefully we can be so stubborn to keep believing, against all evidence, that the human condition is worth it, because we have been poorly made, but we're not finished.
May we be able to continue walking the path of the wind, despite falls and betrayals and defeats, as the story goes, beyond us, and when she says goodbye, he is saying goodbye.
Hopefully we can keep alive the knowledge that may be compatriot and contemporary of anyone who lives animated by the desire for justice and the will to beauty, born and alive when they are born alive, because they have no boundaries or maps of the soul time. Eduardo Galeano
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