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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
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.
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.
Light is time thinking about itself.
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.
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.