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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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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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alone
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Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an employee of Mammon. – 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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You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. – Buddha

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Love in its essence is spiritual fire. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. – Anais Nin

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In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love. – Charles Baudelaire

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Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees. – Karl Baker

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We pardon to the extent that we love. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. – Francis H. Bradley

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All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them – much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are. – Alice Hoffman

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