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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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Octavio Paz
Age: 84 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 31
Died: 1998
Died: April 2
Diplomat
Essayist
Lyricist
Philosopher
Poet
Politician
Translator
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Mexico City
Mexico
Octavio Paz Lozano
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Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
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Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.
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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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There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.
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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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Every moment is nothing without end.
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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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Solitude is the profoundest fact
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Death is the mother of forms.
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A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.
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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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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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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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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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Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.
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For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
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Man does not speak because he thinks he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.
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Light is time thinking about itself.
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When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings
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