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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
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.
A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.
Light is time thinking about itself.
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
To love is to undress our names.
Distraction is our habitual state. Not the distraction of the person who withdraws from the world in order to shut himself up in the secret and ever-changing land of his fantasy, but the distraction of the person who is always outside himself, lost in the trivial, senseless, turmoil of everyday life.
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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.
Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.