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Distraction is our habitual state. Not the distraction of the person who withdraws from the world in order to shut himself up in the secret and ever-changing land of his fantasy, but the distraction of the person who is always outside himself, lost in the trivial, senseless, turmoil of everyday life.
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Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.
There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science, without criticism there is no art or literature. I would also say that without criticism there is no healthy society.
The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
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.
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
