Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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“Deserve your dream.”
Octavio Paz
“What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.”
“Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.”
“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”
“Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.”
“Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.”
“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.”
“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.”
“Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.”
“We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.”