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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is th

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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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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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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No matter how close to yours anothers steps have grown, in the end there is one dance youll do alone. – Jackson Browne

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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals – this alone is worth the struggle. – William Osler

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Very few people are original. Theres very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone. – Susan Powter

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The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management. – Malcolm Turnbull

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