Octavio Paz Quotes about Reality

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Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.

Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.

Octavio Paz

Moving, Reality, History

Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger, G. Aroul (1984). “Selected Poems”, p.26, New Directions Publishing

It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.

Octavio Paz

Reality, Discovery, Giving

I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all I had seen, heard, smelled, and felt: dizziness, horror, stupor, astonishment, joy, enthusiasm, nausea, inescapable attraction. What had attracted me? It was difficult to say: Human kind cannot bear much reality.

Octavio Paz

Night, Reality, Names

"In Light of India".

The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it he cannot grow or mature.

Octavio Paz

Mother, School, Reality

Octavio Paz (1985). “The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre”, p.25, Grove Press

Octavio Paz Quotes about Reality

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