Dialectic Society

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“Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)

“As some heads cannot carry much wine, so it would seem that I cannot bear so much society as you can. I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough of it this year, I shall cry all the next.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)