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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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.
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the mass society created by capitalism. Every system, by virtue as much of its abstract nature as of its pretension to totality, is the enemy of life. As a forgotten Spanish poet, José Moreno Villa, put it with melancholy wit: "I have discovered in symmetry the root of much iniquity."
The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
To love is to undress our names.
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.
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.
