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For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.

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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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Every
Men
Extinct
Disappears
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There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science, without criticism there is no art or literature. I would also say that without criticism there is no healthy society.
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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
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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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Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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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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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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A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
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The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
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A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact
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The world is born when two people kiss
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Loving means getting rid of names.
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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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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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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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To fight evil is to fight ourselves.
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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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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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