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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
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."
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science, without criticism there is no art or literature. I would also say that without criticism there is no healthy society.
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
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.
Light is time thinking about itself.
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.
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
