Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an employee of Mammon. – Octavio Paz
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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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. – Octavio Paz
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If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what Im saying is common sense. Its very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values. – Ai Weiwei
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