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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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The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of…
— George Leigh Mallory
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You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet - at your full height - at a single gesture. Ready to…
— Marita Bonner
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Doubt is what allows a single gesture to have a heart.
— Unknown Author
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Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.
— Octavio Paz
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In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War…
— J. G. Ballard
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Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing it. They went to work, came back,…
— Paulo Coelho
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A single smile from her could make his entire being burn. One touch from her hand and he was undone. It was…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects.
— Toni Servillo
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