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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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The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions: Can we be equitable? Can we…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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Eternity is not an unending succession of days in the calendar, but something more like the supreme moment of satisfaction, in which…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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It is where we embrace our questions. . . . Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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What ever we embrace eventually reveals the place we have been seeking.
— Gangaji
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This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about…
— John Pilger
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When we embrace the things that make us unique, our true and remarkable capabilities are revealed
— Amy Purdy
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That hurt we embrace becomes joy. Call it to your arms where it can change.
— Rumi
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Most of the time, it's not until we embrace our limitations that God can start to use us beyond our limitations.
— Steven Furtick
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We who oppose abortion do not oppose those who have had abortions; rather, we embrace them with forgiveness and peace.
— Frank Pavone
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How can we embrace rest and play if we've tied our self-worth to what we produce?
— Brené Brown
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We embrace policies that have, first and foremost, the continued survival of the British people at their core, and in that respect…
— Steve Blake
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We pursue her in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight.…
— Octavio Paz
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