Octavio Paz Quote

Perhaps to love is to learn to walk through this world.

The most dangerous human masses are those in whose veins the poison of fear has been injected... the fear of change.

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Love is born of a sudden passion; friendship from frequent and prolonged interaction.

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Eroticism and poetry: the first is a metaphor for sexuality, the second an eroticization of language.

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Each poem is unique. In each work, all of poetry beats, to a greater or lesser degree. Each reader seeks something in the poem. And it's not unusual that they find it: It was already inside them.

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Architecture is the least bribable witness of history.

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A nation without free elections is a nation without voice, without eyes, and without arms.

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The liberal society will be paralyzed if it stops being self-critical.

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Ningún pueblo believes in its government. At most, the people are resigned.

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Poetry must be a little dry to burn well, and thus illuminate and warm us.

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In every erotic encounter there is an invisible and always active character: the imagination

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