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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.
By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
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.
Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.