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Carlos Fuentes

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Carlos Fuentes

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Carlos Fuentes means that literature allows readers to live through multiple perspectives and moments beyond their own real-life history. By doing so, it broadens understanding and offers experiences that historical facts alone cannot provide.

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