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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
Deserve your dream.
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.
The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.
Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.
