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Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.


Octavio Paz

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JAMES C. DOBSON The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
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C. JOYBELL C. I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the...
MICHAEL HARRIS Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad c...
DONNA TARTT Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
C. JOYBELL C. When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS... People want the here and now, rather than the there and after; as most are living in the where and w...
ANTHONY LICCIONE To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
BIJOU HUNTER She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON Daisy stared worriedly into his shadowed face. “What if you change your mind about me? What if you...
LISA KLEYPAS Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI Knowing when and how to rest is knowing when and how to acknowledge your limitations and your depend...
CRAIG GROESCHEL To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
ADI ALSAID When you add love to sex, it feels as if your soul is being drawn from the chains of gravity into th...
CHLOE THURLOW Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori...
TOMOKO HAYAKAWA How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Trust might be the only solution.
NEIL TIMOTHY P. EDILLON The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Life is about happiness—not about success.
DEBASISH MRIDHA To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... Despite his best efforts, maintaining dignity in a head attached to an unclean body wrapped in uncle...
DAN GROAT Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY something must go within to bring what is within out. Oh yes! You need something within to bring wha...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH My time has is here, my mission has failed, but in spite of my limitations i will never loose faith....
RYAN LEONARD Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right.
SHANNON HALE Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.
DAVID MITCHELL To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
ZSA ZSA GABOR To err is human, but it feels divine.
MAE WEST I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible s...
WILFRID SELLARS FOOTBALL IS A DECISION GAME BASED ON QUICK THINKING IN RELATION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND YOU AND ...
LERCHE NJANG The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.
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STEPHANIE PERKINS If Cameron kidnaps you, kills you, then buries your lifeless body in a shallow grave in the desert w...
DARYNDA JONES Forgiveness is a powerful mental process that detoxifies our mental, spiritual and physical realms.
JACINTA MPALYENKANA Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.
DAN ARIELY Do what is best for you; it will be the best for the world.
DEBASISH MRIDHA A librarian for president is exactly what this country needs.
RICHARD CASTLE To attach to a goal is to mentally protect it because of a negative story running at the back of you...
JACINTA MPALYENKANA In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o...
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STEVEN STRAIT And I knew that it was possible he wasn't entirely right for me, but I also knew, in some way...
CATHERINE LACEY The end is the matter! A step to the end is a factor!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL There is no time...but the present.
KENT POLLON Peace does not walk up to our doorsteps and press the calling bell! We have to go out there and sear...
AVIJEET DAS See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
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CHRISTINA ENGELA What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL [If a man] postpone[s] any open acknowledgement... that his own faith is in direct opposition to the...
C.S. LEWIS Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA Some part of me can't wait to see what life's going to come up with next! Anticipation without the u...
ALEXANDER SHULGIN How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL We had to cross the border through distant places. Now we will get permits and continue our work.
HASSAN ALI You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI Sun shines on my back as I walk away
Sun shines on my chest and I return
The fall air is c...
BRENT M. JONES You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
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OCTAVIO PAZ Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environmen...
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OCTAVIO PAZ Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, t...
OCTAVIO PAZ To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
OCTAVIO PAZ Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
OCTAVIO PAZ Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
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OCTAVIO PAZ The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something...
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OCTAVIO PAZ The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are ...
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OCTAVIO PAZ Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being bec...
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OCTAVIO PAZ What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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OCTAVIO PAZ Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technolog...
OCTAVIO PAZ Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone...
OCTAVIO PAZ Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes th...
OCTAVIO PAZ All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable an...
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OCTAVIO PAZ The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twiste...
OCTAVIO PAZ Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
OCTAVIO PAZ Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nin...
OCTAVIO PAZ In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work...
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OCTAVIO PAZ If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disrega...
OCTAVIO PAZ As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the...
OCTAVIO PAZ Deserve your dream.
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OCTAVIO PAZ The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poe...
OCTAVIO PAZ We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as...
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OCTAVIO PAZ Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
OCTAVIO PAZ Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us et...
OCTAVIO PAZ What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life i...
OCTAVIO PAZ To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to ...
OCTAVIO PAZ The minority of Mexicans who are aware of their own selves do not make up a closed or unchanging cla...
OCTAVIO PAZ The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American e...
OCTAVIO PAZ "What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions.
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OCTAVIO PAZ Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is s...
OCTAVIO PAZ A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who imp...
OCTAVIO PAZ Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
OCTAVIO PAZ Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indiffere...
OCTAVIO PAZ Nuestra muerte ilumina nuestra vida. Si nuestra muerte carece de sentido, tampoco lo tuvo nuestra vi...
OCTAVIO PAZ ...chases after it, mocks it, courts it, hugs it, sleeps with it; it is his favorite plaything and h...
OCTAVIO PAZ Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and mora...
OCTAVIO PAZ I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books th...
OCTAVIO PAZ Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential i...
OCTAVIO PAZ A saint speaks with God or with himself, two forms of silence.
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OCTAVIO PAZ Merece lo que sueñas.
OCTAVIO PAZ Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reprod...
OCTAVIO PAZ When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.
OCTAVIO PAZ Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
OCTAVIO PAZ In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspen...
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OCTAVIO PAZ la admiración por el Padre, símbolo de lo cerrado y agresivo, capaz de chingar y abrir, se transpa...
OCTAVIO PAZ Beyond myself, somewhere,
I wait for my arrival.
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PAZ VEGA We have been making steady progress in moving this institute forward.
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PAZ DE LA HUERTA I love Frida Kahlo.
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PAZ DE LA HUERTA I think I'm attracted to outlaws because they make me feel safe inside, like a little child.
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