If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor…

Octavio Paz
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time. ✨ Octavio Paz (1973). Alternating Current, p.53, Arcade Publishing
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time. ✨ Octavio Paz (1973). Alternating Current, p.53, Arcade Publishing

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