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I remember my loves, my conversation, my friendships. I remember it all, see it all, see them all.

— Octavio Paz The Clerk's Vision (1949)

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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)

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.

The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950)

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)

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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