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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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. – 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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Love is the second prevailing virtue, that adorns her character. Without it she is like a closed blossom which exhibits neither its beauty or its fragrance; love reveals her inward mystery. – Frederick A. Rauch, “Of Woman,” Psychology; or, A View of the Human Soul: Includ

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Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had. – Marilyn Monroe

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To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever youre wrong, admit it Whenever youre right, shut up. – Ogden Nash

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A flower falls, even though we love it and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. – Dogen

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Its hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden. – Patricia Heaton

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Im going to take care of the man Im with. I grew up in a household where my mum takes care of my dad – she cooks, she does everything – and thats the kind of girl I am. – Nicole Scherzinger

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