“The Other does not exist: such is the creed of reason, the incurable belief of the rational mind. Identity equals reality—as if, in the end, everything must be absolutely and necessarily one and the same. But the Other resists erasure: it exists, it endures; it is the hard bone upon which reason breaks its teeth. Abel Martín, with poetic faith—no less human than rational faith—believed in the Other, in the ‘essential heterogeneity of Being’; in other words, in the incurable alterity that wounds the One.”

– Antonio Machado –