"listen to me as one listens to the……" — Octavio Paz
"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? not here, not there: you hear them in another time that is now, listen to the footsteps of time, inventor of places with no weight, nowhere, listen to the rain running over the terrace, the night is now more night in the grove, lightning has nestled among the leaves, a restless garden adrift-go in, your shadow covers this page."
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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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Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a…
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[Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing…
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Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live.
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Weird Weekends set out to discover the genuinely odd in the most ordinary setting. To me, it's almost a privilege…
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Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and…
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Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile…
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A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could…
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Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways - in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters. More…
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True individualists are always at odds with the universe. Set adrift by their peculiar tastes and interests, they spend their…
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With spirit we are all children of the cosmos; Without it we are orphaned and adrift.
— Deepak Chopra
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I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I…
— Henri Frédéric Amiel
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Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course…
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