"The universe unfolds in the body, which is……" — Octavio Paz

"The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature."

— Octavio Paz

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80 Quotes by Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz has 80 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different…
Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be…
Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can…
Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies…
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time…
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes…
Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks.…
We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood…
Poet: gardener of epitaphs.
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 Body Quotes

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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