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Octavio Paz
 Mexican author & diplomat

| “ | Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always. | ” |
| “ | Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950) | ” |

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