More Quotes by Octavio Paz
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.
Light is time thinking about itself.
The world is born when two people kiss
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
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.
By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death
Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always.
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
Deserve your dream.
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.
