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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the mass society created by capitalism. Every system, by virtue as much of its abstract nature as of its pretension to totality, is the enemy of life. As a forgotten Spanish poet, José Moreno Villa, put it with melancholy wit: "I have discovered in symmetry the root of much iniquity."
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
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
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.
Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
Every moment is nothing without end.
The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
