More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.
Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.
A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.
To love is to undress our names.
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.
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.
Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.
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
