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Men Quotes by Octavio Paz
- Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one…
- Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which…
- Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the…
- The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of…
- For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
- 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.
- Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.
- Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
- Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks…
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