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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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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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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers… What we call art is a game. – Octavio Paz

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Art
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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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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type. – Irving Babbitt

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We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration. – Martin Sheen

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Society

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society. – Joe Biden

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Society

In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff. – Ethan Hawke

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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. – Katherine Mansfield

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Theres no sense in going to a tournament if you dont believe that you can win it. And that is the belief I have always had. And that is not going to change. – Tiger Woods

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All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side. – Marguerite Young

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My theory is that men are no more liberated than women. – Indira Gandhi

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