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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
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.
A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.
The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.
The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
The world is born when two people kiss
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
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.