The Mexican, in contrast, 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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Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.Octavio Paz
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Deserve your dream.
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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions life is plurality, death is uniformity.
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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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