No one behind, no one ahead. The path the ancients cleared has closed.…

Octavio Paz
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No one behind, no one ahead. The path the ancients cleared has closed. And the other path, everyone's path, easy and wide, goes nowhere. I am alone and find my way. ✨ Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger (1998). In Light of India, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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