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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
Octavio Paz
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Octavio Paz
Age: 84 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 31
Died: 1998
Died: April 2
Diplomat
Essayist
Lyricist
Philosopher
Poet
Politician
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Mexico City
Mexico
Octavio Paz Lozano
Writing
Beggars
Beggar
Western
Writers
Society
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Images, memories, fragmentary shapes and forms all those sensations, visions, half-thoughts that appear and disappear in the wink of an eye, as one sets forth to meet.... The path also disappears as I think of it, as I say it.
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Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.
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For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
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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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Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.
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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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The woman who died night after night and her dying was a long goodbye, a train that never left.
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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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A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.
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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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