More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
Deserve your dream.
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.
A civilization that denies death ends by denying 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.
Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.
