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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
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
A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.
Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.
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.
Deserve your dream.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Every moment is nothing without end.
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
