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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.
It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
Deserve your dream.
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.
Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.
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
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.
