- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
- Dialectic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
Deserve your dream.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
- Condemned
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
- Hear
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- Nov 07, 2020
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world stretches before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.
- Consciousness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The minority of Mexicans who are aware of their own selves do not make up a closed or unchanging class. They are the only active group, in comparison with the Indian-Spanish inertia of the rest, and ever day they are shaping the country more and more into their own image.
- Mexican
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.
- Fellow Citizens
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- Nov 07, 2020