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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Deserve your dream.
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.
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.
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.
To love is to undress our names.
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
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.
The world is born when two people kiss
Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.