“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.”
— Octavio Paz
Author: Octavio Paz
Category: alone
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Literature is the expression of a feeling
“Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.”
— Octavio Paz
Author: Octavio Paz
Category: nature
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which
“Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers… What we call art is a game.”
— Octavio Paz
Author: Octavio Paz
Category: art
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To read a poem is to hear
“To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.”
— Octavio Paz
Author: Octavio Paz
Category: poetry
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Literature is the expression of a feeling
“Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.”
— Octavio Paz
Author: Octavio Paz
Category: history
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in
“Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.”
— Octavio Paz
Author: Octavio Paz
Category: wisdom
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