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

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Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.

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To love is to undress our names.

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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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Every moment is nothing without end.

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

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

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

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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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