The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult …

Octavio Paz
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The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. ✨ Octavio Paz (1981). The Monkey Grammarian, p.10, Arcade Publishing
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