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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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Octavio Paz
Age: 84 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 31
Died: 1998
Died: April 2
Diplomat
Essayist
Lyricist
Philosopher
Poet
Politician
Translator
Writer
Mexico City
Mexico
Octavio Paz Lozano
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Tears
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Light is time thinking about itself.
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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.
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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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The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
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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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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
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Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
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I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink, were nothing but pauses and syllables, scattered phrases from that dialogue. What word could it be, of which I was only a syllable? Who speaks the word? To whom is it spoken?
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