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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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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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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it with our ears. – Octavio Paz

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Poetry
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It is in Saudi Arabias best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office. – Barbara Boxer

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In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted. – Ray Dalio

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Society

There comes a time when a woman needs to stop thinking about her looks and focus her energies on raising her children. This time comes at the moment of conception. A child needs a role model, not a supermodel. – Terri Guillemets

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Society

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society. – Angela Davis

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Society

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My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward. – Parker Posey

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Attitude

Ive developed into quite a swan. Im one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty. – Rufus Wainwright

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Beauty

Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry. – Josiah Royce

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respect

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. – Charlotte Bronte

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Prejudice