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Quote by Octavio Paz
Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an emplo

Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an employee of Mammon. – Octavio Paz

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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. – Octavio Paz

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alone
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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. – Octavio Paz

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History
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. – Octavio Paz

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Love
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Men would not live long in society, were they not the mutual dupes of each other. – François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)

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Society

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. – Erich Fromm

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Society

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world. – Elijah Wood

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Society

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. – John F. Kennedy

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Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior. – Charles Sturt

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Her kisses left something to be desired… the rest of her. – Author Unknown

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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that thats becoming like a lost art in American cinema. – Quentin Tarantino

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Ive never had my brows done – I tweeze them myself. I used to watch my mom pluck her brows, thats how I learned. – Emmy Rossum

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