In Eden the only wealth is nakedness and unawareness. — Carlos Fuentes · Skopia

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In Eden the only wealth is nakedness and unawareness.

In the original Spanish

En el Edén no hay más riqueza que la desnudez y la inconsciencia.

1993

★ 3.7

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Garden of Eden Wealth Nakedness Innocence

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Fuentes, Carlos. "Las does Americas [The Two Americas]." El Naranjo [The Orange Tree]. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994.

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