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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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A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the…
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I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of…
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Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If…
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If you see things as in eternity, you are less a prey to the pain of their passing, and so you can…
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You have to be possessive about who you love
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I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britains greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers…
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My wife is possessive and I like that
— Fawad Afzal Khan
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Mine. The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's…
— Holly Black
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My vision of a real humanity is of pure individuals relating to each other, but not tied in any relationship. They will…
— Rajneesh
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Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.
— Robert Bloch
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Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep a hold…
— Penelope Lively
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Confronted with the loving-sharing Consensus of subject-SUBJECT relationships all Authoritarianism must vanish. The Fairy Family Circle, co-joined in the shared vision of…
— Harry Hay
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