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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another.

— Octavio Paz The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950)

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No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there. No one is alone and nothing is solid: change is comprised of fixities that are momentary accords.

The Monkey Grammarian (1974)

Following a path: reading a stretch of ground, deciphering a fragment of world.

The Monkey Grammarian (1974)

The world stretches out before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.

The Clerk's Vision (1949)

Their acts are a disturbance of order, not a criticism of it.

Alternating Current (1967)

Unweave the verbal fabric: reality will appear.

The Monkey Grammarian (1974)

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