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Octavio Paz has 81 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours…
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Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and…
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Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.
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Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only…
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A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
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Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost…
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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a…
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Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is…
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
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The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an…
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Poet: gardener of epitaphs.
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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing…
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I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid…
— Nicolas Cage
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Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and…
— William Shakespeare
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I think like the species I am studying, whatever it is. If I am watching a lizard, I become the lizard. Gazing…
— Desmond Morris
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What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you…
— Ray Bradbury
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The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
— Chinua Achebe
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The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.
— Chinua Achebe
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The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it…
— Ivan Turgenev
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Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
— Chinua Achebe
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The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing…
— Arto Lindsay
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I used to love to call L.A. when I lived in New York...Is that the Big One I hear in the background?…
— Bill Hicks
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The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.
— Elizabeth Smart
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