Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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to live is to expose oneself

No less sad than seeing the person we love grow old and die is the discovery that our lover is betraying us or has stopped loving us. Subject to time, change and death, love can also fall victim to boredom. Living together day after day, if lovers lack imagination, can bring the most intense love t…

—p.270 The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism Recapitulation: The Double Flame (253) by Octavio Paz
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the sense of sharing another’s suffering

Youth is the time of love. But there are old young people incapable of love – not because of sexual impotence but from an aridity of soul. There are also young old people who fall in love – some are ridiculous, some pathetic and some sublime. But can we love a body that has grown old or been disfig…

—p.264 Recapitulation: The Double Flame (253) by Octavio Paz
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there is no remedy for time.

There is no remedy for time. Or, at least, we do not know what it is. But we must trust in the flow of time, we must live. The body ages because it is time, as does everything that exists on this earth. I am well aware that we have succeeded in prolonging life and youth. For Balzac the critical age…

—p.263 Recapitulation: The Double Flame (253) by Octavio Paz