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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Octavio Paz
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Octavio Paz
Age: 84 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 31
Died: 1998
Died: April 2
Diplomat
Essayist
Lyricist
Philosopher
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Politician
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Mexico City
Mexico
Octavio Paz Lozano
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Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.
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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.
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Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings.
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A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.
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The woman who died night after night and her dying was a long goodbye, a train that never left.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move today is today, always is today.
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The world is born when two people kiss
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Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality both as analysis and as synthesis, it was a criticism of appearance. Surrealism transmuted the object, and suddenly a canvas became an apparition: a new figuration, a real transfiguration.
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Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.
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Ruy-Sanchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry and intelligence in a new geometry of words... His writing has nerve and agility, his intelligence is sharp without being cruel, his mood is sympathetic without complicity.
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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.
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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.
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Every moment is nothing without end.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can never be imposed from without born of the profoundest tendencies within a society, its direction is to a certain extent unpredictable, in much the same way as the eventual configuration of a tree's branches.
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Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.
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Deserve your dream.
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Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
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A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
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