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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Distraction is our habitual state. Not the distraction of the person who withdraws from the world in order to shut himself up in the secret and ever-changing land of his fantasy, but the distraction of the person who is always outside himself, lost in the trivial, senseless, turmoil of everyday life.
The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
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.
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.