Octavio Paz
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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. ✨ Octavio Paz (1987). 1904-1912, San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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