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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
The world is born when two people kiss
Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.
Light is time thinking about itself.
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the mass society created by capitalism. Every system, by virtue as much of its abstract nature as of its pretension to totality, is the enemy of life. As a forgotten Spanish poet, José Moreno Villa, put it with melancholy wit: "I have discovered in symmetry the root of much iniquity."
The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.
Every moment is nothing without end.
Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.
To love is to undress our names.
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.