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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
Translator
Writer
Mexico City
Mexico
Octavio Paz Lozano
Stone
Shining
Stones
Poetry
Whatever
Light
Mexican
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The world is born when two people kiss
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Death is the mother of forms.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.
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Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.
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What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend 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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To fight evil is to fight ourselves.
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A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.
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By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing how to keep silent, knowing that there are times when one should say nothing.
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Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.
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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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A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
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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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Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move today is today, always is today.
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Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.
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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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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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Every moment is nothing without end.
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Watching I watch myself, what I see is my creation as though entering through my eyes perception is conception into an eye more crystal clear water of thoughts, what I watch watches me, I am the creation of what I see
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