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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. – 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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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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If you love someone, set them free. If they come back theyre yours if they dont they never were. – Richard Bach

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The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar. – Jimi Hendrix

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I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. – Lucille Ball

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On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. – Hu Shih

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