Octavio Paz Quotes
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I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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Sometimes I draw blanks.
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
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You can't say the public likes generic characters. Give others a chance, go for a more rooted and honest characterisation, take some risk, and then let the public choose.
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I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.
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I think that I, Jack McBrayer, am somewhat of a people pleaser, and I do enjoy being good at my job. But I would never endanger my life with gullibility or naivete.
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I will see this game of life out to its bitter end.
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Musharraf is a good man and wants to improve relations with India.
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Initially, I tried to become an aid worker and someone who could help people, but I was unsuccessful in convincing anyone that I could be of any use. So I went and became a war correspondent without any experience in war or in being a correspondent. So that was daring.
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Tailor Made will help Ferrari's clients tailor their cars in a very personal, specific way. It's a bespoke service, like visiting Huntsman or Anderson & Sheppard or whoever your favourite Savile Row tailor is.
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The Thirties are a great mix of everyday glamour and something a bit more practical.
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I have looked on the hills of the stormy North,And the larch has hung his tassels forth.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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Is there anything that is forbidden to anybody who says they have God on their side? Who says they have God with them? Is there any evil that they forbid themselves to do? 10
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In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.
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They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.
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The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
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There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.
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I get really scared about how the Internet is shifting and changing everyone's minds, and the way we see ourselves and interact online. Everything is so diluted now.
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"My burden is light," said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through all nature for a resemblance of this, and seem to find a shadow of it in the wings of a bird, which are indeed borne by the creature, and yet support her flight towards heaven.
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If you are the amber mare
