"Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose,……" — Octavio Paz
"Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life."
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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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