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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.
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.
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.
The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always.
Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.
Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.
