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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
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.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science, without criticism there is no art or literature. I would also say that without criticism there is no healthy society.
Light is time thinking about itself.
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
