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“The meanings of our words do not arise from themselves, or from their differential play, so much as from lives lived in a given historical time and culture.”

— Gémino H. Abad

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“To write, then, is to get real, to breathe life into language.”

"Poetry is the most human of arts, for it is language itself that makes us human.”

"Man is the only being among other beings on earth that seeks truth in knowledge.”

“Every reader apprehends that meaningfulness or diwa in light of his own life experience, in his own historical time and cultural space.”

"Truth-seeking, then, is his being or essence as human.”

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