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Human Quotes by Octavio Paz
- Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one…
- We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the…
- Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial…
- Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
- Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is…
- If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the…
- I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all I had seen,…
- a human being is never what he is but the self he seeks.
- Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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