23 ordspråk av Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz föddes den March 31st 1914 och dog den 19 April 1998 - Mexican writer
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 "What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life" |
| ...chases after it, mocks it, courts it, hugs it, sleeps with it; it is his favorite plaything and his most lasting love. |
| A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cotton cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing before the separation of the useful and the beautiful. |
| Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. |
| Deserve your dream. |
| If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time. |
| 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. |
| Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. |
| Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think. |
| Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason. |
| Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings. |
| Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings. |
| Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. |
| 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. |
| The electoral process of July 6 perhaps represents a new era in the history of Mexico. |
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