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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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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. – Octavio Paz

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Wisdom
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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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Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today. – Jinato Hu

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The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive. – John Zorn

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What is the use of a house if you havent got a tolerable planet to put it on? – Henry David Thoreau

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Speed kills colour… the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray. – Paul Morand

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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. – Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, translated by Philemon Holland

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In my life Ive learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what were all searching for. I havent come across anyone who didnt become a better person through love. – Marla Gibbs

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