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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
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.
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 flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.
Deserve your dream.
The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.
The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
Light is time thinking about itself.