Special Dictionary / Quotations / Octavio Paz
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15 Quotations of Octavio Paz.
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers ...2.
If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excel ...3.
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a s ...4.
Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, sp ...5.
Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a ...6.
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake ...7.
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, ...8.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of me ...9.
Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The n ...10.
The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality ...11.
Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There i ...12.
We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by ...13.
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is cri ...14.
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between ...15.
Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western soc ...