--- title: "3 Paz Marquez Benitez Quotes" description: "Paz Márquez-Benítez was a Filipino short-story writer, educator and editor. Her career as a woman educator as well as her contributions as a writer are ..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b6/paz-marquez-benitez-83756_life_love-he-seemed-to-have-missed-it-or-was_890467.jpg" --- # Paz Marquez Benitez **3** quotes in **7** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Paz Márquez-Benítez was a Filipino short-story writer, educator and editor. Her career as a woman educator as well as her contributions as a writer are seen as an important step within the advancement of women in professional careers as well as in the development of Philippine literature. She was al ## Quotes by Paz Marquez Benitez > [“Love—he seemed to have missed it. Or was the love that others told about a mere fabrication of perfervid imagination, an exaggeration…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paz-marquez-benitez/love-he-seemed-to-have-missed-it-or-was-the-love-that-others-told/) Paz Marquez Benitez [Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b6/paz-marquez-benitez-83756_life_love-he-seemed-to-have-missed-it-or-was_890467.jpg) > [“Why would men so mismanage their lives? Greed, he thought, was what ruined so many. Greed--the desire to crowd into a moment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paz-marquez-benitez/why-would-men-so-mismanage-their-lives-greed-he-thought-was-what/) Paz Marquez Benitez [Desire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/desire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b4f/paz-marquez-benitez-83756_desire_why-would-men-so-mismanage-their-lives-g_1629564.jpg) > [“So all these years—since when?—he had been seeing the light of dead stars, long extinguished, yet seemingly still in their appointed places…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paz-marquez-benitez/so-all-these-years-since-when-he-had-been-seeing-the-light-of-dead/) Paz Marquez Benitez [Astronomy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/astronomy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8fe/paz-marquez-benitez-83756_astronomy_so-all-these-years-since-when-he-had-bee_3009930.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paz-marquez-benitez/#itemlist", "name": "Paz Marquez Benitez Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Love—he seemed to have missed it. 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