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Octavio Paz Quotes: A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.
         

A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.


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