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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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In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is…
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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man…
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Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
— Ramana Maharshi
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Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience…
— Henry Beston
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Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and…
— Philip Guston
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Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.
— Paul Klee
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"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man,…
— Douglas Adams
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Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of…
— Ludwig Boltzmann
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