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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.
Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
Every moment is nothing without end.
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.
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.
There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science, without criticism there is no art or literature. I would also say that without criticism there is no healthy society.
It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.
To love is to undress our names.
