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Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Nothing seems so true that it cannot seem false.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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No benefit is ever achieved without harming another.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Laws maintain their credit not because they are just, but because they are laws.

Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz

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Eroticism and poetry: the first is a metaphor for sexuality, the second an eroticization of language.

Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz

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Each poem is unique. In each work, all of poetry beats, to a greater or lesser degree. Each reader seeks something in the poem. And it's not unusual that they find it: It was already inside them.

Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz

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Architecture is the least bribable witness of history.

Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz

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A nation without free elections is a nation without voice, without eyes, and without arms.

Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz

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The liberal society will be paralyzed if it stops being self-critical.

Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz

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Ningún pueblo believes in its government. At most, the people are resigned.

Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz

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Poetry must be a little dry to burn well, and thus illuminate and warm us.

Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz

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In every erotic encounter there is an invisible and always active character: the imagination