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Octavio Paz Quotes

Language lies outside of society because it is its foundation; but it also lies within society because that is the only place where it exists and the only place where it develops Picture Quote #1

The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or explanation, but an end Picture Quote #1

Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are spontaneous and blind. Revolution is both planned and spontaneous, a science and an art Picture Quote #1

By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing how to keep silent, knowing that there are times when one should say nothing Picture Quote #1

Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt Picture Quote #1

Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning Picture Quote #1

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No one behind, no one ahead. The path the ancients cleared has closed. And the other path, everyone’s path, easy and wide, goes nowhere. I am alone and find my way Picture Quote #1

Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing more natural than sexual desire; there is nothing less natural than the forms in which it is made manifest and satisfied Picture Quote #1

I don’t believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers Picture Quote #1

To love is to battle, to open doors. The world changes if two can look at each other and see Picture Quote #1

It may seem paradoxical to say that we have been expelled from the present, but it is a feeling we have all had at some moment. Some of us experienced it first as a condemnation, later transformed into consciousness and action. The search for the present is neither the pursuit of an earthly paradise nor that of a timeless eternity: it is the search for a real reality Picture Quote #1

There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot Picture Quote #1

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Language lies outside of society because it is its foundation; but it also lies within society because that is the only place where it exists and the only place where it develops (Octavio Paz Quotes) The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or explanation, but an end (Octavio Paz Quotes) Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are spontaneous and blind. Revolution is both planned and spontaneous, a science and an art (Octavio Paz Quotes) By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing how to keep silent, knowing that there are times when one should say nothing (Octavio Paz Quotes) Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt (Octavio Paz Quotes) Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning (Octavio Paz Quotes) No one behind, no one ahead. The path the ancients cleared has closed. And the other path, everyone’s path, easy and wide, goes nowhere. I am alone and find my way (Octavio Paz Quotes) Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing more natural than sexual desire; there is nothing less natural than the forms in which it is made manifest and satisfied (Octavio Paz Quotes) I don’t believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers (Octavio Paz Quotes) To love is to battle, to open doors. The world changes if two can look at each other and see (Octavio Paz Quotes) It may seem paradoxical to say that we have been expelled from the present, but it is a feeling we have all had at some moment. Some of us experienced it first as a condemnation, later transformed into consciousness and action. The search for the present is neither the pursuit of an earthly paradise nor that of a timeless eternity: it is the search for a real reality (Octavio Paz Quotes) There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot (Octavio Paz Quotes)

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