"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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"Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.“
-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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"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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"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
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"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
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"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
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