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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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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. – Octavio Paz

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The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi. – Beth Henley

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I once had a boyfriend who couldnt write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because this was a long time ago, and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts, let alone neckties it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something. – Susan Orlean

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I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that youre going through to realize that youre not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that its not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery. – Sarah McLachlan

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It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear! – Anthony de Mello

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