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Love is one of the answers humankind invented to stare death in the face: time ceases to be a measure, and we can briefly know paradise.
Octavio Paz

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.
Octavio Paz

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.
Octavio Paz

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

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Octavio Paz

Surrealism has been the drunken flame that guides the steps of the sleepwalker who tiptoes along the edge of the shadow that the blade of the guillotine casts on the neck of the condemned.
Octavio Paz

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
Octavio Paz

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

For he is superstitious grown of late,
Quite from the main opinion he held once
Of fantasy, of dreams, and ceremonies.
Octavio Paz

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
Octavio Paz

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Octavio Paz - Mexican poet, critic and diplomat. Born 1914. Died 1998. Nobel Prize for Literature 1990.