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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
Deserve your dream.
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.
Light is time thinking about itself.
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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.
Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.
