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“To love is to undress our names.”
― Octavio Paz

“I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

“I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down
and break your neck.”
― Carlos Fuentes

“Writing is a struggle against silence.”
― Carlos Fuentes

“I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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― Carlos Fuentes