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Turn Quotes by Octavio Paz
- Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster…
- Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.
- Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
- Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry,…
- My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
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- When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. — Chinua Achebe
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? — Jane Austen
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
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- Don't let your sins turn into bad habits. — Teresa of Avila
- Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera. — Joan Baez
- O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out. — Abu Bakr
- If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. — Mikhail Bakunin