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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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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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To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master the world changes if two look at each other and see.
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Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
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Death is the mother of forms.
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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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A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
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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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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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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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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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