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Inspirational Quotes by Octavio Paz
- We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
- Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
- Whatever is not stone is light
- Grace is gratuitous; it is a gift.
- Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
- For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
- Light is time thinking about itself.
- Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.
- Death is the mother of forms.
- Language lies outside of society because it is its foundation; but it also lies within society because that is the only place where it exists…
- It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense delight and a…
- Deserve your dream.
- Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.
- Without democracy freedom is a chimera
- When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.
- a human being is never what he is but the self he seeks.
- To love is to undress our names.
- Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
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- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
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