Octavio Paz's Quote - Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recour

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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recour

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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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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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. – 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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There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. – Harry S. Truman

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History paints the human heart. – Napoleon I

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We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play. – RÃ©gis Debray, Revolution in the Revolution?

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The historian reports to us, not events themselves, but the impressions they have made on him. – Heinrich von Sybel

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