"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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"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.“
-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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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
-George Sand
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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
-Elie Wiesel
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"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
-William Shakespeare
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"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy."
-Robert A. Heinlein
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"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
-Charles M. Schulz
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