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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Light is time thinking about itself.
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.
To love is to undress our names.
Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always.
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.
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.
The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
The beloved is already in our being, as thirst and "otherness." Being is eroticism. Inspiration is that strange voice that takes man out of himself to be every thing that he is, everything that he desires; another body, another being. Beyond, outside of me, in the green and gold thicket, among the tremulous branches, sings the unknown. It calls to me.
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.
