The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.

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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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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

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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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We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the mass society created by capitalism. Every system, by virtue as much of its abstract nature as of its pretension to totality, is the enemy of life. As a forgotten Spanish poet, José Moreno Villa, put it with melancholy wit: "I have discovered in symmetry the root of much iniquity."

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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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A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

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

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

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