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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 uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one…
— Samuel Johnson
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I dress for women and I undress for men.
— Angie Dickinson
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Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose…
— C.S. Lewis
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Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Africa, help me to go home, carry me like an aged child in your arms. Undress me and wash me. Strip me…
— Aime Cesaire
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This means that we have barely disembarked into life, that we've only just now been born, let's not fill our mouths with…
— Pablo Neruda
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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To win a woman in the first place you must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back…
— Jean Giraudoux
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All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and…
— Lin Yutang
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Any child who is self-sufficient , who can ties his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of…
— Maria Montessori
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A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.
— Ugo Betti
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