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Diego Cienfuegos is an influential socialist Congressman who eventually becomes a Minister and helps pass an important peace treaty. Early in his career, Clarisa appeals to him to donate to an order of nuns who oppose him politically, arguing that the nuns’ service to the poor would pay him back in the end. Cienfuegos and Clarisa become close, and he continues to take her advice and donate to the causes she suggests. At some point, Cienfuegos fathers Clarisa’s third and fourth children out of wedlock, but their tryst remains a secret until Eva Luna puts the pieces together.
Diego Cienfuegos Quotes in The Stories of Eva Luna
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Story 3: Clarisa
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The midwife advised [Clarisa] that in all probability she would give birth to another abnormal child, but Clarisa mollified her with the argument that God maintains a certain equilibrium in the universe, and just as He creates some things twisted, He creates others straight; for every virtue there is a sin, for every joy an affliction, for every evil a good, and so on, for as the wheel of life turns through the centuries, everything evens out. The pendulum swings back and forth with inexorable precision, she said.
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Diego Cienfuegos Quotes in The Stories of Eva Luna
The The Stories of Eva Luna quotes below are all either spoken by Diego Cienfuegos or refer to Diego Cienfuegos. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Story 3: Clarisa
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The midwife advised [Clarisa] that in all probability she would give birth to another abnormal child, but Clarisa mollified her with the argument that God maintains a certain equilibrium in the universe, and just as He creates some things twisted, He creates others straight; for every virtue there is a sin, for every joy an affliction, for every evil a good, and so on, for as the wheel of life turns through the centuries, everything evens out. The pendulum swings back and forth with inexorable precision, she said.
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