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A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims. - Octavio Paz
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Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out. - Octavio Paz
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides. - Octavio Paz
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As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian. - Octavio Paz
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. - Octavio Paz
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The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American. - Octavio Paz
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One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it. - Octavio Paz
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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society. - Octavio Paz
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Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts. - Octavio Paz
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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves. - Octavio Paz
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Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history. - Octavio Paz
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. - Octavio Paz
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. - Octavio Paz
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Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think. - Octavio Paz
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The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words. - Octavio Paz
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Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes. - Octavio Paz
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. - Octavio Paz
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary. - Octavio Paz
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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant. - Octavio Paz
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The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern. - Octavio Paz
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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. - Octavio Paz
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Deserve your dream. - Octavio Paz
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I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts. - Octavio Paz
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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. - Octavio Paz
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. - Octavio Paz
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