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Octavio Paz has 81 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours…
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Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and…
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Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.
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Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only…
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A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
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Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost…
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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a…
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Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is…
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
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The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an…
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Poet: gardener of epitaphs.
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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing…
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My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.
— Emile M. Cioran
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It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.
— Rose Macaulay
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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
— E. W. Howe
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
— Octavio Paz
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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both…
— Edward Hoagland
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not…
— Bertrand Russell
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You can kill time or kill yourself, it comes to the same thing in the end.
— Elsa Triolet
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Either we are in the universe to inhabit the eternity of our souls and grow real, or else we might as well…
— John O'Donohue
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To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.
— William James
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Did think you were here to kill time listening to Christian music until you go to heaven? We've got work to do.
— Mark Driscoll
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When you kill time, you kill your opportunities for success.
— Denis Waitley
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
— B. C. Forbes
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