"Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always."

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Source : Octavio Paz (1995). “The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism”, Harcourt

Octavio Paz

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“Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate to hearse when Lycid lies.”
“The world is a philosophical prison and Man is the philosophical prisoner.”
“He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.”
“Back in the 70s it cost 15-20$ a shot for the film, the processing, and the contact sheet, now itâ€™s twice that.”
“A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.”
“I'm doing what I love to do and I'm going to go as far as I allow myself to go and I'm just going to stay positive.”
“The function of education has never been to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them; and to the end that the mind and spirit of his children should never escape, Homo Sapiens has employed praise, ridicule, admonition, accusation, mutilation, and even torture to chain them to the culture pattern.”
“A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, smile often, dream big, laugh a lot and realize how blessed you are for what you have.”

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