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Every moment is nothing without end.

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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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Moments
Ends
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It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense delight and a quick death.
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To fight evil is to fight ourselves.
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Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.
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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
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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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What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.
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The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
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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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Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move today is today, always is today.
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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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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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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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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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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western 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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Solitude is the profoundest fact
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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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For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
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