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

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Society
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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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This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme. – Francis Beaumont

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A baby is born with a need to be loved — and never outgrows it. – Frank A. Clark

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek. – Proverb

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The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups. – Charles Browder

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So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry. – DJ Jazzy Jeff

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