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Quote by Octavio Paz
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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Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an employee of Mammon. – 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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Poetry
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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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Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone. – Lord Byron

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The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true. – George W. Bush

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alone

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. – Marcel Proust

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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing. – Herodotus

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