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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
Deserve your dream.
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 purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
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.
Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
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.
Light is time thinking about itself.
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.
