Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.
The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most st… - Octavio Paz
The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most st…
- Octavio Paz
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 p… - Octavio Paz
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 p…
I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all I had seen, heard, smelled, and felt: dizziness, horro… - Octavio Paz
I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all I had seen, heard, smelled, and felt: dizziness, horro…
A civilization that denies death ends by denying life. - Octavio Paz
A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion. - Octavio Paz
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
Deserve your dream. - Octavio Paz
Deserve your dream.
Ruy-Sanchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry and intelligence in a new geometry of words... His writing has nerve and agility… - Octavio Paz
Ruy-Sanchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry and intelligence in a new geometry of words... His writing has nerve and agility…
Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others. - Octavio Paz
Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. - Octavio Paz
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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