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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention o

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

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Society
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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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To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity. – Thomas A. Edison

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Art

Envy is the art of counting the other fellows blessings instead of your own. – Harold Coffin

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Art

Art is a kind of illness. – Giacomo Puccini

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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Art

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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure. – Will Durant

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. – Charles Dickens

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Charm is… a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. – Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956

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