"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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"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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"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."
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"Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two."
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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."
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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."
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"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual."
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"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present."
-Babatunde Olatunji
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"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
-Winston Churchill
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"Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages."
-Auguste Rodin
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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
-Desmond Tutu
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"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are."
-David McCullough
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"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
-H. G. Wells
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