"their cyclical conception of time..a force or sustance or fluid perpetually being used up" (93)
"We should remember that fascination with death is not so much a trait of maturity or of old age as it is of youth"(94).
"At noonday everything stops for a moment, vacillating life, like the sun, asks itslef whether it is worth the effort to go on" (94).
"the death wish and the will to live conflict in each one of us...The victory of the death wish shows us that the Aztecs suddenly lost sight of their destiny" (95).
"fought in the knowledge that he would be defeated" (96).
"they died as orphans" (96).
"Mexico was the child of a double violence, imperial and unifying" (100).
"Catholicism ... a living faith..,thanks to religion the colonial order was not just a superimposition of new historical forms but a living organism" (101)
"This possibility of belonging to a living order, even if it were at the bottom of the social pyramid, was cruelly denied by the to the Indians by the protestants of New England' (102).
"The important thing was that their social, human and religious relationships had been reestablished" (102).
"The grandour of Mexico ....
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