The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.

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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.

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Every moment is nothing without end.

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A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

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The beloved is already in our being, as thirst and "otherness." Being is eroticism. Inspiration is that strange voice that takes man out of himself to be every thing that he is, everything that he desires; another body, another being. Beyond, outside of me, in the green and gold thicket, among the tremulous branches, sings the unknown. It calls to me.

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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

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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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Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.

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Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.

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Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

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