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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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Octavio Paz
Age: 84 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 31
Died: 1998
Died: April 2
Diplomat
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Politician
Translator
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Mexico City
Mexico
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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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Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.
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The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
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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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A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.
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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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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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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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