"We are condemned to kill time, thus we…" — Octavio Paz

"We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit."

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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.…
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.…
Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

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