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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
Octavio Paz
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Interpretation

What this quote means

This quote reflects the struggle for freedom experienced by individuals in a particular generation.

Octavio Paz emphasizes the significant and prolonged battle for intellectual and political freedom faced by his generation. He speaks to the collective experience of those who have fought against oppression and for the rights that allow individuals to think, express, and govern themselves freely.

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In practice

Example use cases

In a speech about civil rights, one might quote Octavio Paz to highlight the importance of freedom.

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The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it he cannot grow or mature.
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Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.
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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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Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.
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