"Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival."

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Source : Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger (1991). “The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987”, p.171, New Directions Publishing

Octavio Paz

#Waiting Quotes

“I was able to first snap the radius and then within another few minutes snap the ulna at the wrist and from there, I had the knife out and applied the tourniquet and went to task. It was a process that took about an hour.”

Source : "How I snapped bone and cut off my arm, by US climber" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2003.
“I'm very resourceful. I'd be good in prison. I'd be good in a shipwreck. I'd make a great hostage.”
“It's for the Palestinians to decide who will lead them.”
“The person who really needs the psychotherapy (...) is not the homosexual youngster who gets dragged to the psychiatrist's office by his mother, but the mother, to releive her anxieties about his homosexuality.”
“Don't pull your love out on me baby.”
“There are as many kinds of missionaries as there are human beings. There are the terrible, colonialist power-grabbers, still, and there are plenty of the sort of well-intentioned villains who do great harm and don't understand that they are doing great harm.”

Source : "To Rage Against Meaninglessness". Interview with Matt Bell, logger.believermag.com. February 6, 2014.
“A conversation isn't a competition.”
“Do not allow grass to grow on the road of friendship.”

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