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Quote by Octavio Paz
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only s

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. – Octavio Paz

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Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an employee of Mammon. – 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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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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One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. – Paulo Coelho

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I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it. – Audrey Hepburn

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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. – Turkish Proverb

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