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Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. the modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.
-Octavio Paz
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Tradition Is No Longer A Continuity But

Octavio Paz
Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. the modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.
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To revolt within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about certain reforms, is like the revolt of prisoners to improve their life within the prison walls; and such revolt is no revolt at all, it is just mutiny. do you see the difference? revolt within society is like the mutiny of prisoners who want better food, better treatment within the prison; but revolt born of understanding is an individual breaking away from society, and that is creative revolution.
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National discord is, like religion, a standardized form of revolt; and the moment a revolt is standardized, it is no longer a revolt.
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Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. revolt is masaniello, who led the neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is spartacus. insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.
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Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. the most effective form of revolt in this violent world we live in is non-violence.
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My discord must be different from yours; my revolt must not be the same thing as yours. it will not be a revolt if it is moulding itself around your revolt.
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Notable enough, however, are the controversies over the series 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - ... whose sum was given by leibniz as 1/2, although others disagree. ... understanding of this question is to be sought in the word "sum"; this idea, if thus conceived - namely, the sum of a series is said to be that quantity to which it is brought closer as more terms of the series are taken - has relevance only for convergent series, and we should in general give up the idea of sum for divergent series.
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