Octavio Paz Quotes

• 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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• No doubt the nearness of death and the brotherhood of men-at-wars, at whatever time and in whatever country, always produce an atmosphere favorable to the extraordinary, to all that rises above the human condition and breaks the circle of solitude that surrounds each one of us.

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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.

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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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• Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

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• Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

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• What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

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• We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

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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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• Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

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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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• Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

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• Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

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• If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

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• Deserve your dream.

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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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Octavio Paz (16)

Birth:	31st March, 1914
Death:	19th April, 1988
Nationality:	Mexican
Profession:	Diplomat, Poet, Writer

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Octavio Paz Lozano About this sound audio was a Mexican poet-diplomat and writer. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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