Aiden

“The past reappears because it is a hidden present.”
― Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings

“Great minds talk about ideas; small minds talk about people”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Reversibility: seeing through opaqueness, not-seeing through transparency. The wooden door and the glass door: two opposite facets of the same idea. This opposition is resolved in an identity: in both cases we look at ourselves looking. Hinge procedure. The question “What do we see?” confronts us with ourselves.”
― Octavio Paz, Marcel Duchamp: Appearance Stripped Bare

“History has the cruel reality of a nightmare, and the grandeur of man consists in his making beautiful and lasting works out of the real substance of that nightmare. Or, to put it another way, it consists in transforming the nightmare into vision; in freeing ourselves from the shapeless horror of reality--if only for an instant--by means of creation.”
― Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings