More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.
To love is to undress our names.
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.
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.
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.
The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.
