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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.
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.
The world is born when two people kiss
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.
Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.
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 an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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.
