"Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival." — Octavio Paz
"Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival."
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80 Quotes by Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz has 80 quotes on this site.
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Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different…
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Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be…
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Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can…
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Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies…
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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…
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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…
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Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks.…
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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…
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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.…
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More Arrival Quotes
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one of 196 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
— Rudolf Arnheim
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I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within…
— David Attenborough
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For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point…
— Joseph Brodsky
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For all the noise and anger that too often surrounds the immigration debate, America has nothing to fear from today's…
— Barack Obama
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If you don't know where you are going, then how will you get there? VISUALISE! Make pictures in your mind.…
— Bryce Courtenay
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Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to…
— Alistair Cooke
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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
— Thomas Carlyle
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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should…
— C.S. Lewis
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You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your…
— Tony Robbins
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When you meditate, what you actually do is to enter into a calm or still, silent mind. We have to…
— Sri Chinmoy
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It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.
— Coco Chanel
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Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.
— Mark Twain
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