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One 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…
- 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:…
- We pursue her in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight. We embrace her…
- The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or…
- By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing…
- No one behind, no one ahead. The path the ancients cleared has closed. And the other path, everyone's path, easy and wide, goes nowhere. I…
- Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing…
- My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
- listen to me as one listens to the rain, the years go by, the moments return, do you hear the footsteps in the next room?…
- 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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