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Julí
Tandang Selo is Cabesang Tales’s father and Tanó and Julí’s grandfather. After Julí sells herself into servitude, Tandang Selo loses his ability to speak. Later, when Julí is killed visiting Father Camorra, Tandang Selo leaves San Diego to join his son and the other bandits in the forest before being killed by his own grandson in a firefight with the army.
Tandang Selo Quotes in El Filibusterismo
The El Filibusterismo quotes below are all either spoken by Tandang Selo or refer to Tandang Selo. 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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30. Julí
Quotes
“Oh, God, oh, God!” said a poor woman, emaciated from hunger. “Before You there is no rich or poor, no white or black, bring us justice!”
“Yes,” her husband answered. “The God they preach about is pure invention, a trick. They’re the first ones to not believe in Him!”
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Tandang Selo Quotes in El Filibusterismo
The El Filibusterismo quotes below are all either spoken by Tandang Selo or refer to Tandang Selo. 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:
).
30. Julí
Quotes
“Oh, God, oh, God!” said a poor woman, emaciated from hunger. “Before You there is no rich or poor, no white or black, bring us justice!”
“Yes,” her husband answered. “The God they preach about is pure invention, a trick. They’re the first ones to not believe in Him!”
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