Octavio Paz Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I can do whatever I want.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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He let out a yell of joy. They danced round the room. Pressure of population was such that reproduction had to be strict, controlled. Childbirth required government permission. For this moment, they had waited four years. Incoherently they cried their delight.
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Nine out of 10 people who recognize me recognize me from the commercials.
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How fleeting is this world yet it survives. It is ourselves that fade from it and our ephemeral lives.
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I ran very fast in the wrong direction.
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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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.
