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Everything is language.

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Octavio PazThe Bow and the Lyre: The Poem

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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is ...

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Every text is unique and, at the same time, it is the translation of another text. No text is entirely original because language itself, in its essenc...

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There was only one huge world with no back to itA world like a sunOne day it broke into tiny piecesThey were the words of the language we now speakPie...

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At first I couldn't see anything. I fumbled along the cobblestone street. I lit a cigarette. Suddenly the moon appeared from behind a black cloud, lig...

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When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of...