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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. – Octavio Paz

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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. – Octavio Paz

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

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You dont want to love – your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You arent positive, youre negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because youve got a shortage somewhere. – David Herbert Lawrence

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I love everything thats old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. – Oliver Goldsmith

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It would be impossible to “love” anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object. – Paul Valéry, Tel quel, 1943

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What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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