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My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
― Octavio Paz
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Hundred
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Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
― Octavio Paz
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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
― Octavio Paz
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Thinking
Mirrors
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Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.
― Octavio Paz
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Waiting
Arrivals
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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.
― Octavio Paz
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A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
― Octavio Paz
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Flower
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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
― Octavio Paz
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Civilization
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Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
― Octavio Paz
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LoveIs
Desire
Yearning
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
― Octavio Paz
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Loneliness
BeingAlone
Men
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Deserve your dream.
― Octavio Paz
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Dream
YourDreams
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A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.
― Octavio Paz
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Death
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The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.
― Octavio Paz
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FutureHappiness
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The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
― Octavio Paz
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Purpose
Wonder
Possibility
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Light is time thinking about itself.
― Octavio Paz
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Thinking
Light
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To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.
― Octavio Paz
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Love
Doors
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Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.
― Octavio Paz
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Reality
History
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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
― Octavio Paz
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Eye
Poetry
Ears
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Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
― Octavio Paz
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Views
Community
Culture
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To love is to undress our names.
― Octavio Paz
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LoveIs
Names
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
― Octavio Paz
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Love
Success
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