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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.
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.
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.
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.
Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.
The world is born when two people kiss
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
Every moment is nothing without end.
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.
