Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.

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By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death

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Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life

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Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.

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To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.

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Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.

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My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.

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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

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The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.

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Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.

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